Bora Police ORSITE Ready

By Boy Ryan Zabal

The members of the BSTPO undergoing the ORSITE in Boracay Island Resort.

The tourist-trained Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel in the island resort of Boracay underwent the annual Operational Readiness Site Inspection Test and Evaluation (Orsite) recently.
The 55-strong Boracay Special Tourist Protection Office (BSTPO) is headed by Senior Insp. Christopher Prangan and deputy chief Senior Insp. Auxilo Dador.
Senior Supt. Jessor Arguelles, regional director of Internal Affairs Services (IAS), said the Orsite evaluators assessed the physical appearance, accomplishments in operations, intelligence, logistics, controllership, and Police Community Relations (PCR) efforts and cleanliness of the Boracay police station.
"They should be able to arrest or neutralize a suspect properly like handcuffing and improve their capabilities to fight crimes against property or persons," Arguelles added.
In September 2005, ten PNP officials from the United Nations peacekeeping force handled the operations, logistics, intelligence, controllership and Police Community Relations (PCR) of BSTPO.
PNP also constructed a P10-million world class police station and trained all personnel on special operations, community policing and anti-terrorism and tourist protection to render world class tourist service to tourists and stakeholders in Boracay.
The ORSITE team is composed of representatives from the PNP directorial staff and the PNP Internal Affairs Service (IAS). They were given entrance briefing with Senior Supt. Benigno Durana, Jr.., acting provincial police director before the ORSITE.
"This region-wide evaluation of PNP personnel is done yearly to determine their effectiveness and readiness during actual police operations," Durana stressed.
They also conducted inspections in the 15 police stations including Kalibo PNP under the newly-promoted chief of police, Supt. Arnold Ardiente. /MP