Only command group of 6th RPSB to transfer

From the Visayan Daily Star (Aug 7): Only command group of 6th RPSB to transfer

Only the command group of the 6th Regional Public Safety Battalion is up for transfer to Iloilo, not its entire force in Negros Occidental, Senior Supt. Celestino Guara said yesterday.

Guara, who is chief of the Police Regional Office 6 Personnel and Human Resource Development Division, said that if the transfer of 6th RPSB headquarters to Janiuay in Iloilo, pushes through, Camp Aniceto Lacson in Victorias City will be made a forward command post of the police unit.

The 6th RPSB is the rapid deployment force of the Western Visayas police. There are now three companies of 6th RPSB stationed in Victorias City, Murcia and Sagay City,Negros Occidental, while another company is deployed in Iloilo.

Except for the 6th RPSB, the command groups of Police Regional Office 6, and its various support units, are all at Camp Martin Delgado in Iloilo City.

Guara said a parcel of land in Janiuay town has been offered to be the new site of the 6th RPSB headquarters. If not being occupied within a three-year period, however, it will be returned to its owner, he added.

He, however, said there is no budget yet for the transfer and construction of a new 6th RPSB headquarters in Iloilo.

In counter-insurgency operations, the 6th RPSB and 6th Special Action Force Battalion have been placed under the Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade in Negros Occidental.

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2013/August/07/topstory10.htm