CAMP GEN. VICENTE LIM, Calamba City -- Newly installed director of Police Regional Office 4A (Calabarzon), Chief Supt. Guillermo Eleazar, has ordered the reactivation of a special operations group to help pursue high-value targets (HVTs) involved in illegal drugs and support the intensified internal cleansing of police ranks.
“To enhance our efforts to intensify our campaign against hard target or high-value target, I am now reactivating the Regional Special Operation Group to complement our Regional Drug Enforcement Unit in running after drugs and syndicated high-value targets,” Eleazar said during his installation and turnover of command ceremony at the regional police camp here Tuesday.
He also commended his predecessor Chief Supt. Ma O Aplasca, who has been assigned to Camp Crame, Quezon City as deputy director for operations, for instituting the Community Mobilization Program (CMP) in the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon.
Eleazar vowed to continue Aplasca’s initiative on the CMP as he had done in Quezon City, the barangay clustering strategy in the drug-clearing operation.
“What I learned most (is), for us to be successful in our campaign against illegal drugs and other forms of criminality, we need the full support, the participation, the cooperation of the community,” Eleazar said.
On the intensified internal cleansing, he announced a system of rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
“We will continue our efforts in orientation and retraining of our personnel but just the same, we will run after our ‘scalawags’ in the PNP (Philippine National Police),” Eleazar said.
He noted that some members of the 11,000-strong Calabarzon police force are remiss in performing their mandate of implementing the rules of the PNP.
Eleazar said the counter intelligence task force will be organized to run after the “scalawags” and entrap them when necessary, even inside the regional headquarters, as what he had done at the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), where he was formerly assigned.
He also warned criminals to stop their activities or leave the region because he would hunt them down, banking on the commitment of the police force under his command and his 13-year experience in Calabarzon as head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), Highway Patrol Group (HPG), and Regional Special Action Force (RSAF), among others.
Eleazar also challenged the regional police force to “claim for double victory in his new area of responsibility, victory against illegal drugs and victory against all forms of criminality.” (Zen Trinidad/PNA)
