Mambaling Police Stationto be relocated

CEBU, Philippines —  The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) Station 11, or the Mambaling Police Station, will soon be relocated from its present location at Maria Gochan Street.

CCPO director, Police Colonel Ireneo Dalogdog, said they were mandated by Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama to find a strategic place for the station’s relocation, stressing its current area is decongested.

He stated that because of the office’s limited space, the police personnel assigned in Station 11 are in difficulty serving their people well.

Dalogdog met last Friday with Mambaling Police Station chief, Police Captain Renz Talosig, and conducted an ocular inspection in the area and they also discussed the station’s relocation.

Though the plan was not yet fully finalized, he said the station would be transferred still within the area of Mambaling.

Earlier, the Cebu City Police Station 5, or the Carbon Police Station, was also relocated on December 1 and merged with Police Station 2 along Osmeña Boulevard.

It was because the old police station building had to be demolished to give way for the ongoing redevelopment of the Carbon Public Market.

But Police Major Kenneth Albotra, chief of CCPO Station 5, clarified the move is only temporary as those behind the redevelopment of the Carbon Public Market will make a new police station at the old site.

With its continued vision for Cebu City to be “Singapore-like,” the Cebu City government has been conducting renovations and transfers of several of its facilities to ensure structures are inclusive, functional, and efficient.

Rama issued an executive order adopting a Singapore-like city as the city’s vision and establishing a public-private special corporate-oriented structure, platform, and mechanism for the purpose in August this year. — Robhe Jane Yara, GMR (FREEMAN)