This came after local
residents, including businessmen expressed alarm over the rash of violent
crimes in the province since the last week of January.
The crimes includes the
killing of a businesswoman in Paombong town, kidnapping of a family in
Meycauayan City, assassination attempt on a mayors aspirant in San Miguel town
that resulted to the death of his two companions, robbery at Resureccion
Panswhop in Balagtas town and at Pamana Cooperative in Malolos City.
Other crimes include killing
of a lawyer in San Jose Del Monte City; a police officer in San
Rafael town, and an employee at the Vice Mayor’s office of Malolos City
Alvarado said that the
Bulacan Provincial Police Office reported to him that crime incidents in the
province is lower compared to the first two months of last year.
However, he said that crime
solution efficiency is low.
“Maraming unresolved case,
kaya magpapatawag ako ng Peace and Order Council meeting on Monday,” he
said in an interview last Wednesday, March 1.
The governor also noted that
while a number of crimes committed in the province remain unresolved, many were
committed with boldness.
He cited that the killing of
the businesswoman from Paombong, along with the killing od a lawyer in the City
fo San Jose Del Monte, thre kidnapping and carjacking in Meycauayan City and
the robbery at Pamana Cooperative were committed on broad day light.
“It must be stopped,” he
said noting that a number of Bulakenyos approached him and expressed their
fears on increasing criminality in the province.
A former lawmaker and vice
governor of Bulacan, Alvarado was elected in the 2010 elections.
After his assumption to
office, he vowed “to put the house in order” noting that good governance will
result to peace and order then to more investments in the province that will
generate jobs.
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