PAGADIAN CITY, August 8 (PIA) – In
support to the greening project recently launched by PNP Director General
Nicanor Bartolome dubbed “ Pulis Makakaliksan: Sampung Milyong Puno, Pamana sa
Kinabukasan” requiring each PNP member in the
county to plant six trees per month until February 28, 2013, the Pagadian City
Police Office under the command of P/Supt. Kenneth Mission on Wednesday morning
conducted a tree planting activity in barangay Kalasan here.
Administrative
division chief, Inspector Gaspar Gadingan said 112 seedlings of mahogany and
fruit-bearing trees were planted by 56 PNP personnel at a site selected by
Punong Barangay Ramil Roma.
Gadingan said a total of 1,680 seedlings were already
planted in various barangays in 15 separate tree planting occasions since March
this year.
“We are hoping to
reach our goal of planting 10,000 trees until February 2013 to help mitigate
the formidable effects of climate change ,” Gandingan was quoted as saying.
This activity,
Gadingan said is also in support to the reforestation program of President
Benigno Simeon Aquino III, known as the National Greening Program.