Police shoots fellow cop, wife

JUST AS the Police Regional Office Cordillera was about to launch its revitalized Internal Cleansing Program and Squad Leaders and Life Coaches Orientation Seminar, a poTHE

lice officer was killed while another was injured in a shooting incident in Abra Province Friday morning by a police trainee.

In a belated police report, the police officers were identified as Patrolman Jay Valdez and Patrolwoman Jemalyn Langgoyan who are both assigned at Bucloc Municipal Police Station (MPS).

Investigation revealed Valdez and Lanngoyan was together inside the lady police officer’s rented room at Zone 7 in Bangued, Abra when police trainee Joseph Langgoyan, who is the husband of the patrolwoman, arrived and got irked shooting both police.

Langgayon, according to police report is undergoing field training program at the Bangued MPS.

Tabili sustained a gunshot wound on his head that caused his death while Langgoyan, who suffered a gunshot wound on her abdomen, survived and is currently confined at the Abra Provincial Hospital for medical treatment.

The suspect is now under the custody of Bangued MPS for documentation prior filing of appropriate charges against him.

More than 300 participants composed of chief of offices of the Regional Headquarters and Support Units, Provincial/City Directors, Chief of Police, Force Commander of RMFB, Executive Senior Police Officers, Chief Clerks and Church leaders attended the launching held at BENECO Multipurpose Hall, South Drive Rd. Baguio City.

The internal cleansing program is implemented through a squad concept which originated from the Philippine Military Academy where the leader guides and supervises the members.

During the seminar, different approaches of the new internal cleansing program were discussed including the roles and responsibilities of the PNP Squad Leaders and guided by Values/ Life Coaches composed of volunteer Church leaders.

The program is intended to give emphasis to the preventive approach which is more personal and intimate, one way of changing the attitudes, and building the spiritual and family values of every policeman. Moreover, this concept aims to prevent every police personnel from involvement in illegal activities, to maintain discipline in the ranks and to uplift the morality and spirituality of all PNP personnel.

This concept is effective to better supervise the increasing number of policemen who are found to be involved in illegal activities.