ZAMBOANGA
City—Police regional office of Zamboanga Peninsula donated P.5 million to the
victims of the super typhoon Yolanda, police said in a statement early.
To
reached its target, police here suggested to commit P100.00 each as donation for the
victims, it said.
Led
by police chief Superintendent Juanito B. Vaño Jr., PNP 9 regional director,
the cash donations were turned over at once to the chief of the Philippine
National Police.
Zamboanga
Peninsula has the number of 5,896 police force functioning as law enforcers in
the provinces and municipalities of the entire region.
Vaño
said, “Ang ating kapulisan ditto sa PRO9 ay nakikiramay at handing tumulong sa libo-libong
nasalanta ng bagyo saVisayas. Saka tunayan ang ibang pulis na nagbigay ng P100
ay nasunugan ng bahay noong nakaraang Zamboanga standoff with the MNLF.
Peromagkaganun pa man, sila ay hindi nag dalawang isip na tumulong sa ating mga
kababayan na labis na naapektuhan ng super typhoon Yolanda.”
The priority
recipients of the amount donated will be PNP members who were typhoon victims.
Typhoon Yolanda,
which was said to be one of the most destructive cyclone in history, has
devastated several provinces in the Visayas region.
This effort, a
brainchild of the regional director, was repeatedly announced as voluntary,
such that those who do not want to give will not be forced to do so.
At least 100 per
cent of the personnel from the PNP regional office 9 have responded positively
as they manifested clearly their intentions by affixing their signatures as
among those who are willing to donate P100.00.
This assistance is
one way of showing that police here are sensitive to the plight of their
“kababayans,” especially their brother-policemen and policewomen, in the
typhoon-ravaged regions. –-With Judys
Cogo
