Outgoing Police Chief grateful to Baguio folk

Police Col. Glen Lonogan, outgoing City Director of the Baguio City Police office (BCPO), expressed his gratitude to the city residents for their unwavering support to his leadership that allowed Baguio’s Finest to make the country’s undisputed Summer Capital a peaceful and orderly place amidst the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In his valedictory address, Lonogan also expressed his gratitude to the local government and to the men and women in uniform for their unconditional support to his leadership over the past one year and three months that allowed BCPO to reap various prestigious recognitions.

Lonogan formally turned over the BCPO leadership to Acting City Director Police Col. Francisco B. Bulwayan, Jr. during simple turnover rites held at the BCPO multipurpose hall Wednesday.

During his stint as City Director, BCPO was able to reach the institutionalization stage and conferred the Gold Eagle Award for being the first police office to reach the said stage under the Performance Governance system (PGS) enshrined under the PNP Patrol Plan 2030.

Further, the BCPO City Mobile force Company was adjudged as the Best City Mobile Force Company in the country during the Police Service Anniversary held at Camp Crame, Quezon City last August.

He pointed out that having served one of the highly urbanized cities in the country is one of the most challenging part of his career as a police officer because of the dedication that must be devoted to attend to the various issues and concerns confronting the city’s police force and the maintenance of law and order in the city.

Lonogan will be serving as the chief of the personnel and records management division of the Police Regional Office (PRO) in the Cordillera after his tour of duty in the city.

The police official admitted that having served during the COVID-19 pandemic period also served as a challenge to the local police force as they have to strictly implement border controls, participate in contact tracing, impose community quarantine restrictions among others that allowed them to learn their lessons the hard way.

He assured his successor that the men and women of BCPO will surely extend to him the utmost support that they have provided him during his tour of duty in the city to sustain the gains of making Baguio City a good place to live, study work and do business being the center of commerce and trade as well as center of education in the north.

The outgoing BCPO official emphasized that one of the achievements of his tour of duty was the high crime solution efficiency that paved the way for most of the crimes committed in the city to be solved with a reasonable period of time because of the aid of high tech investigation tools provided by the PNP and the local government to allow the timely resolution of crimes within their areas of jurisdiction.

For the past several years, he stipulated that Baguio city had been a melting pot of various cultures that is why there is a need for the local police force to work out law and order strategies and measures that transcends cultural boundaries for the benefit of the greater majority of the populace. – Dexter A. See