156 RMG troopers return
IN VISAYAS
BY GILBERT BAYORAN
The 156 Regional Mobile Group troopers, among them the 75 from Negros Occidental, who were dispatched to Mindanao at the height of government campaign against Abu Sayyaf bandits, are now back in the Visayas.
The 75 6 th Regional Mobile Group troopers who arrived at the Iloilo Port last night, were welcomed by Director Ray Roderos, chief of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operations-Visayas, and Region 6 police chief Isagani Cuevas.
The 81 other RMG troopers assigned at the Police Regional Office 7 in Cebu returned with zero casualty, but the 6 th RMG of Western Visayas had one, who died in a gun duel with his colleague in Jolo, Sulu, four months ago, police records show.
The return of 75 RMG troopers to Negros Occidental was timely, some police officers said, because of the May 2010 elections.
Rodero and Cuevas congratulated the 6 th RMG troopers for a job well done in Sulu, where the 6 th and 7 th RMG troopers had been assigned for almost five months.
The company-sized 6 th RMG unit headed by Senior Insp. Jerry Abrogina is expected to arrive in Negros Occidental from Iloilo today.
The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, meanwhile, got two additional police commissioned officers, Inspectors Reina Protacio and Vanessa Gayle Dura.
Protacio and Dura were among the 6 th RMG police officers downloaded to various police units in Western Visayas, police records show.*GPB
