MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police (PNP) will create a separate relief caravan for policemen affected by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international codename: Haiyan).
Senior Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac, PNP spokesperson, said Friday that the PNP would give part of the relief goods for Yolanda victims to police personnel who have been assigned to Visayas and were affected by Yolanda.
“Our relief efforts for our fellow policemen will be different from other civilians affected. We created a separate plan for it,” Sindac said.
The relief packs for thousands of policemen in the devastated areas will contain “police-related” items such as new police uniforms.
But the PNP official stressed that the public should not confuse the relief caravan for policemen with the “regular ongoing donation gathering for the victims of the typhoon..”
Based on PNP records furnished by Sindac, 109 of the 6,295 policemen assigned with the Eastern Visayas regional police office, were still missing.
Among the 109 missing, 32 are police officers from Tacloban—the worst-hit area by the supertyphoon—where 1,725 were recorded to have died.
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