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==Bataan Has Child-Friendly Police CampBataan Has Child-Friendly Police Camp== | |||
*Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/357651/bataan-has-childfriendly-police-camp | |||
*By: MAR T. SUPNAD | |||
*''April 21, 2012'' | |||
CAMP CIRILO TOLENTINO, Balanga City – Children living near the camp of the Bataan Police Provincial Office are beginning to flock to the newly built playground in the camp. | |||
The playground is the brainchild of Provincial Director Police Senior Superintendent Ricardo Zapata Jr. | |||
“When Colonel Zapata took over as provincial PNP Director, he noticed the children playing with dirt and rocks near the camp. Sometimes they would use sticks for mock swordfights,” Sr. Inspector Dennis Orbista, PNP spokesman here. | |||
Realizing that the kids were in danger because they were playing along the roadside, Zapata decided to give the children a safer place in which to play. | |||
He had a small playground built inside the camp and installed slides, see-saws and swings. | |||
“I wanted to establish an atmo¬sphere conducive for workplace and an environment where the family of police retirees and active person¬nel, most especially their children, will find Camp Cirilo Tolentino, a center for their bonding-time,” Zapata said. | |||
The camp used to be a base of the defunct Philippine Constabulary. It was named after the PFC Cirilo Tolentino, who died while rescuing residents trapped by strong floods in Nagwaling, Pilar town, in 1956. | |||
Tolentino was the father of Ma¬jor Guillermo Tolentino, one of the bravest police officers who was killed in an encounter with rebels few years ago. | |||
“Now the camp finds itself in a renewed character with the theme introduced by Provincial Direc¬tor Col. Zapata, as a hub of child-friendly government institution in Bataan,” Orbista said. | |||
==Two provinces in Central Luzon still affected by red tide== | ==Two provinces in Central Luzon still affected by red tide== | ||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=551334809829 | *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=551334809829 | ||