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Accomplishment
Report
Escalante City Police Station
(01 January to 22 December 2003)
General Information
Escalante City Police is under the leadership of Police Senior Inspector
Castor Ladines Laluma with 40 Police Non Commission Officers, one
(1) NUP and nine (9) civilian employees of theLGU.
Escalante City Police Station, in its effort to provide a safe haven
and to protect the people whom they ought to serve, was able to convert
and maintain the city a safer place to live as it goes onward. And
because of this, this stations was adjudged by the PNP National Hqs,
Camp Crame, Quezon City, as the Second Best of theBest Municipal Police
Station of the year in the country in 1999 and awarded by Police Regional
Office 6 as the Best Municipal Police Station in Region 6 on the same
year.
The present and the 1st City Mayor of Escalante is Honorable Santiago
G. Barcelona, Jr. with Vice Mayor Adolfo E. Maguate; and Sangguniang
Panglungsod Members: Hon. Rosario E. Manguilimotan; Hon. Gilda F.
Crisme; Hon. Ester M. Ampil; Hon. Teresita L. Flores; Hon. Armando
C. Alcos; Hon. Virgie A. Pastor; Hon. Rolando B. Torres; Hon. Evelyn
L. Hinolan; Hon. Antonio T. Encarguez, Sr. Hon. Valentin Bismark V.
Sagal.
The City of Escalante was originally known as "Manlambus",
a cebuano term that literally means "Strike Club". Legend
has it that the coastal area has been teeming with fishes and the
wayto catch was only by clubbing. The name, however, was changed to
"Esclante" in 1861 by Rev. Fr. Cipriano Navarro, the first
Spanish missionary assigned in the locality after his hometown in
Spain.
The Municipality of Escalante was converted into one of the component
cities of the province of Negros Occidental, and now known as the
City of Escalante, by the virtue of theRepublic Act No. 9014, duly
approved by Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on February
28, 2001 and it was ratified by the people in the Plebiscite held
on March 30, 2001.
Escalante is a coastal City located in the Northeastern tip of Negros
Occidental, facing the Island of Cebu. It is 49 kms. from San Carlos
City and 95 kms. from Bacolod City, the provincial capital. It is
bounded on the north and west by the city of Sagay, on the south by
the town of Toboso and on the East by theTañon Strait.
Escalante has already gone far in terms of progress and development
. With the efficient and effective leadership of Mayor Santiago G.
Barcelona Jr. since he was elected in his first until his second term
of office last year 2001, the city has been verged with healhty environment,
boosting eco-tourism potentials, vibrant economy and peaceful community
where the entity are clad with opportunities and benefits from various
programs and projects of the City Government that addressed concerns
to Health, Education, Livelihood, Peace and Order, Environment and
Resource Development, Revenue Generation, Shelter, Plus; Food, Security,
Infrastructure, Power, Water, Electrification, Tourism Development
and Promotion, Investment and Trade Promotion (Helpers - Plus Program).
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