Caraga police woman gets nat’l award

Thursday 2nd of August 2012

BUTUAN CITY, Agusan del Norte, Aug 2 (PIA) -- A policewoman from Caraga is one of the four police commissioned officers and six policed personnel named by the Metrobank Foundation Inc., the Philippine National Police (PNP), Rotary Club of New Manila East and PSBank as winners of the search for the Country’s Outstanding Policemen in Service (Cops)

PSupt. Martin M. Gamba, chief spokesman of Police Regional Office-13 said Police Senior Inspector Charity S. Galvez of Butuan City was among the 10 police commissioned and non-commissioned officers chosen out of the 100 nominees nationwide.

In July 2011, Galvez and a her men though outnumbered and facing better-armed foes, stood their ground and repulsed New People’s Army rebels who staged a dawn raid and tried to overrun Trento Municipal Police Station, in Trento town of Agusan del Sur.

The other three commissioned officers who made it to the list included Police Supt. Belli B. Tamayo and Police Supt. Bernard M. Banac of Quezon City and Police Chief Insp. Vicente S. Cabatingan of Laguna.

The other six non-commissioned officers listed also included: Police Officer 3 Eduardo D Santiago, Pangasinan; Senior Police Officer 3 Renjun O. Bagaman, Koronadal; Senior Police Officer 3 Rhia B. Sotomil, Iloilo; Police Officer 3 Mary Jane B. Perez, Cotabato City; Senior Police Officer 4 Ma. Rosario Y. Suarez, Davao City; and Senior Police Officer Robert U. Fabregas, Quezon City.

The selection process of the winners was done under a close and rigorous scrutiny of the files and documents submitted by a selection board and a final appearance before the final board of judges representing different sectors, chaired by Court of Appeals Presiding Justice Andres Reyes Jr.

Cops winners will be awarded together with the Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT) and The Outstanding Philippine Soldiers (Tops) as Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Filipinos on September 5, during the Metrobank 50th anniversary.

Police winners will receive P300,000 as cash prize and a trophy courtesy of Metrobank Foundation. They will also be conferred the “Medalya Ng Katangi-tanging Gawa,” a testament of the exemplary service of the Cops awardees.

The police winners will then join the rank of the 98 Outstanding PNP since 2002. They will also become members of the Policemen Responsible for Organizing, Training and Empowering Communities or (Protect). (RER/NLM-PIA13 Caraga/Noel B. Najarro)