May records 48 More cases in May

TAGBILARAN CITY, June 27 (PIA)—With increasing traffic related incidents heaping up cases and bloating crimes logged in municipal police blotters, Bohol Provincial Police Office reports a total of 84 more crimes in May over the previous month.

Reporting for BPPO police barracks chief PSSupt. Dennis Agustin, PCSuperintendent Lorenzo Batuan pointed out that the 217 index crimes in April rose to 224 in May this year.

At the Provincial Peace and Order Council Friday, June 25, Col. Batuan pointed to the usual culprits in the elevation of total crime volume in Bohol.

“As usual, the noted increase is due to road accidents resulting to Homicide, Damage to Properties, and Physical Injuries, he told PPOC members.

On the other hand, for non index crimes, BPPO operations chief also noted that of the crimes in April, Bohol tallied 393, a figure which further drowned with the 470 cases by May.

The police provincial headquarters recorded 610 crime volume in April, which also rose to 694 in May.

Of the 610 crimes logged in April, Col Batuan showed that 178 of the cases, or 34.26% are crimes in the blotter for traffic related incidents.

The figure eased a bit with May’s 694 crimes where 207 of them were traffic related incidents.

Traffic incidents in the blotter in Bohol stations reached 29.8% for May, still a considerable count considering that the 207 cases could have been significantly lower should people get on to it.

To illustrate the point, in April for example, BPPO snags 110 cases of physical injuries, 62 damage to property as well as 6 homicide cases.

When May came, Camp Dagohoy statisticians received total crime volume at 122, 77 of them caused damage to property and 8 cases of homicide.

PPOC Chair Governor Edgar Chatto once picked the good and well paved road networks as a lure for drivers to over-speed which almost always results to accidents.

Also, irregular under the table deals at the Land Transportation Office have been pointed out as largely contributing to the proliferation of incompetent and unskilled drivers.

Drivers who do not want to get in line and undergo the circuitous processing of papers are now paying the examiners at the LTO to obtain a license.

This is despite the fact that traffic enforcers who would dent on the campaign to rid the streets of irresponsible and unskilled, the road-worthy and the ill-maintained, could hardly take off with enforcement people getting embroiled in controversies. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)

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