• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Seven police officers of the Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) received medals during the awarding ceremony held at Camp Alfredo M. Montelibano Sr. in Bacolod City on Feb. 2.
For their exemplary services, awarded the Medalya ng Kadakilaan were PCapt. Jyan Carlo Mania, chief of E.B. Magalona Municipal Police Station in Negros Occidental, and his men PCpls. Raymond Braña and John Lee Alob.
They arrested five drug suspects and recovered P680,000 worth of suspected shabu in Barangay Nanca as well as seized four assorted high-powered guns with ammunition and a fragmentation grenade during a raid in Barangay Consing.
For exemplary performance in the campaign against loose firearms, PLt. Col. Roland Desiree Lavisto, commander of the 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company of the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office, received the same medal for the successful implementation of a search warrant in Barangay Abis, Mabinay, Negros Oriental.
The police operation resulted in the recoveries of a caliber .45 pistol, three homemade guns, and a hand grenade, and the arrest of the suspect.
The Medalya ng Pagkilala was awarded to PCapt. Roberto Anulacion, acting police chief of Lazi town in Siquijor, for the attainment of zero crime from September to December 2025, and Patrolman Fletch John Quiliquite for saving the life of an individual at the Cambugahay Falls in Siquijor on Jan. 9. | GB
