By: Vic Larato
ZAMBOANGA CITY, May 29 (PIA)- -the City government yesterday commended the Zamboanga City
Police Office under the leadership of its officer-in-charge Police Chief Supt.
Mario B. Yanga on the launching of the electronic blotter (e-blotter) system.
“Today, the ZCPO goes high-tech, joining
the rest of the key cities in Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao in being
electronically connected with each other via the information superhighway or
the Internet,” Mayor Celso Lobregat said, stressing that the new system
facilitates fast, easy and paperless recording of crime information using the
computer machine.
“The e-blotter is also tamper proof,
meaning erring police officers cannot tamper with police records anymore,” the
mayor said.
According to him, with just a click on the
computer keyboard, crime information from the ZCPO, other police stations and
high headquarters can now be accessed through the Internet for police action
without having to go physically to the police station.
Lobregat said last May 8 he turned over to
Gen. Yanga seven computer units worth P250,000 for the e-blotter.
For his part, police regional director
Chief Supt. Napoleon Estilles thank Mayor Lobregat and the city government for
readily donating to the ZCPO seven computer units for the e-blotter system,
because the computers given by the PNP national headquarters were lacking to
service the polices stations in the city.
“When we told the mayor that we lack
computers, he immediately donated seven units to complete the e-blotter
requirement,” Gen. Estilles told police officers undergoing training on the
e-blotter system.-(JPA/VL/CIO/PIA9-ZBST)