Bacarra officials want PNP maritime detachment

By Leilanie G. Adriano

Staff Reporter

Bacarra, Ilocos Norte—Local officials here are urging the Maritime Group of the Philippine National Police to establish a detachment here to run against illegal fishermen proliferating in the area.

Bacarra mayor Nicomedes dela Cruz said he is offering the municipality’s speedboat to be used by the maritime police to patrol the coastal waters here including its neighboring towns with several reported incidents of blast fishing.

According to Mr. Dela Cruz, blast fishing has become rampant in his territorial jurisdiction with the absence of law enforcers and their lack of logistics to run after them.

To date, the 104^th Maritime PNP based at Gaang, Currimao, SPO4 Rommel Lazaga, the team leader, said they only have six personnel covering the 150-kilometer coastline of Ilocos Norte as two more personnel are currently on schooling to advance their career.

He admitted that their mobility in law enforcement response is very limited due to lack of resources and the lack of speedboat to secure highly permeable navigable waters, ports, and coastal areas against narcotics and human trafficking, terrorism, piracy, smuggling, poaching and other forms of criminal activities.

To augment the PNP maritime personnel, P/Sr. Supt. Antonio Mendoza, acting provincial director of the Ilocos Norte Police Provincial Office (INPPO said he will be deploying at least two personnel from the INPPO to re-activate the establishment of a detachment at Barangay Natba, in Bacarra.

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