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www.pna.gov August 18, 2009 STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan, Aug. 18 (PNA)--The Philippine National Police Service Store System (PNP-SSS) has expanded with the opening here of its first ever town store in the country. The first municipal branch of the PNP-SSS nationwide was inaugurated here on Monday morning in a ceremony attended by town mayor, Reynaldo Velasco, a retired PNP general.
Also present during the inauguration was Director Silverio Alarcio of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operation in Northern Luzon, Chief Superintendent Manuel Cachero, deputy Regional Director of Ilocos Region PNP and retired PNP general Jose Antonio Salvacion, administrator of the PNP-SSS. "I thank the PNP for choosing our police station to host the first 'Mamang Pulis' store branch nationwide in the municipal level," Velasco remarked. PNP-SSS is a government functional entity created under Presidential Decree No. 875 on January 15, 1976 operating under the administrative management of the Philippine National Police. Its purpose is to provide common household and other merchandise to PNP personnel and their dependents at affordable and competitive prices. The PNP-SSS used to be concentrated only at the PNP National Headquarters at Camp Crame and some separate units and regional headquarters. Salvacion said several more PNP-SSS provincial branches will be set up this year although the objective is to bring this down to the municipal and city police station level. PO3 Richard Palaganas, the store supervisor, said they are buying goods from suppliers and manufacturers, which sell at prices 12 percent lower to policemen and their families, dependents and authorized buyers. "Percentage of the net income will go to Police Station's cooperative to support its various activities," said SPO4 Jaime Jimenez, the elected president of the local police cooperative. Superintendent Eric Noble, the town's chief of police, said this is part of the PNP Integrated Transformation Program, purposely to benefit policemen and their families. (PNA) |
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