Police Chief Inspector Alden Bacarra Delvo of San Pedro Police Station in Davao City, is one policeman the province of Leyte is be proud of.
PCI Delvo is one of the ten awardees in the recently conducted Country's Outstanding Police in Service, given to the finest men and women of the Philippine National Police by the Metrobank Foundation in partnership with the Rotary Club of New Manila East and the PSBank.
Given to the best and most dedicated members of the police force, this award is an expression of the private sector's appreciation of the police's commitment to maintaining peace and order in the country. In an interview with Police Chief Inspector Delvo, he intimated that he is from Barugo, Leyte which is the hometown of his father, and that his mother is from Motiong, Samar. In fact, a part of his highschool education was taken in Leyte.
Despite being being busy, he finds time to be able to visit Leyte even if only very rarely, and he is proud to say that he could still speak the Waray-waray dialect.
What makes Chief Delvo an outstanding policeman of the country? For one, the COPS awardees have been nominated by their senior officers.
Chief Delvo's reply was doing all his responsibilities as a police officer with dedication, commitment and loyalty to his country, his organization and the public.
The San Pedro Police Station in Davao City is fronting the Church and is located near the City Hall. Chief Delvo often see the many street children hanging around the Church and he kept on thinking what he can do to help these children and also help lessen the problems of government units and agencies.
Because he is approachable and people-oriented, the street children of go to him and then, Chief Delvo found himself facilitating the training of the children to became shoe shine boys. The few shoe shine boys became a 25-member group of shoe shine boys who did their jobs in from of the church. This is what he called Project Oyster.
This act was not left unnoticed. Without his knowledge, Chief Delvo has disturbed and opened the hearts of other people to also help the government in taking care of the disadvantaged sector of society, who would later become his assets and friends.
His concern for the welfare of the youth inspired him to organize the Kabataan Ayaw Sa Druga where he made the barangay captains and other barangay officials to monitor the activities of the young citizens in their respective barangays.
Another one of his "modest undertakings" is the Recon Explorer, a volunteer radio group which he tapped to feed him information. When he organized this group, the members were using hand-held radios. Now that the cellphone and sms are in, the members already makes use of this high tech communication tool.
Chief Delvo became popular not only for his sterling public service, always willing to walk through less travelled roads for the good of the people, but also by his strict adherence to PNP policies which he encourages his men to comply with. He expects his men to produce because "unproductive men should think of retiring or resigning, lest they become unproductive assets of government." A very committed police officer is always inspired to do his job. Police officers must love their profession, because "it is only by loving your job that you will not need to work a single day in your life," he added.
Serving the PNP and the people for 19 years since graduating in 1995 from the National Police Academy, Chief Delvo was assigned in Mindanao and has since then lived and worked there.
Chief Delvo was the chief facilitator in the hostage-taking drama which took place in February of 2008. A man went inside a convenient store and held hostage the people inside the convenient store. Thanks to Chief Delvo who bravely went inside and made the hostage taker surrender without a drop of blood wasted, and with all the hostages safe.
Truly a protector of people, Chief Delvo's name will always be associated with the rescue of a local businessman by the name of Wilson Ho from the Balbacua Kidnap for Ransom Group where more than one half of the group members were captured.
He also facilitated the falling down of former PO2 Allan Estrada Kidnap for Ransom Group, the Chigo Robbery Hold up group and Posada Robbery Hold Up group. Truly gifted with a skill in public relations, Chief Delvo is a masters in public administration and a bachelor of laws degree holder.
Police Chief Inspector Delvo who is only 41 years old, is married to a Cebuano with whom he has 3 sons, the eldest is 13, the one in between is 10 and the youngest is 2 years old. (PIA 8)
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