- GILBERT BAYORAN
The Bacolod City Police Office has recommended the creation of a Special Investigation Task Group to the Police Regional Office 6, to spearhead a probe on the dumping of decomposing bodies and mutilated body parts in Bacolod City in the past several months.
This developed as BCPO remains clueless as to the identification of three decomposing bodies that were separately discovered April 30 and May 2 in barangays Felisa and Cabug, all in Bacolod City.
Two of the victims, one of them wrapped in a sack, were discovered April 30 inside a box culvert in Brgy. Felisa.
The other victim was discovered Tuesday along a road in Brgy. Cabug, also in Bacolod City.
In previous months, mutilated body parts were discovered in different areas of Bacolod.
In a press briefing, P/Lt. Col. David Cachumbo, BCPO deputy director for Administration, maintained that the dumping of bodies and body parts in the city are isolated cases.
P/Maj. Nestor Bacuyag, BCPO spokesperson, said that Bacolod remains generally peaceful.
He said that statistics on the 8 Focus Crimes was very low, except for the dumping of bodies and body parts.
The 8 Focus Crimes are murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, theft, robbery, carnapping, and motorcycle theft.
Bacuyag also said that they are now coordinating with police stations of La Castellana and Silay City, Negros Occidental, where three missing persons had been reported.
The possible involvement of vigilante groups is also being looked into by the BCPO, which is exerting efforts to establish the motive behind the dumping of cadavers and mutilated body parts in the city.
If the creation of the SITG is approved, Cachumbo said it will be led by the BCPO director, under the supervision of PRO6./GB
