by Redjie Cawis


LA TRINIDAD, Benguet- Cordillera Police Regional Director PCSupt. Villamor Bumanglag is hopeful that the jueteng operations in the Cordillera Region will finally be stopped.

Bumanglag said that the police force have already conducted anti-jueteng operations in the different areas in the region. He added that police have arrested operators, kubradors, and other people involved in the illegal numbers game operations.

Recently, the La Trinidad police arrested almost a dozen men in Barangay Pico involved in the operation of jueteng after Mayor Gregorio Abalos received intelligence reports of operations of the illegal gambling in Pico.
Bumanglag said that he is now waiting for official reports of provinces on the operations conducted by police on jueteng.

Bumanglag said that jueteng will stop with the relentless efforts of the National Bureau of Investigation, the police and other law enforcement agencies the illegal numbers game in the region will stop operating.

He is also waiting for the recommendation of the Department of Interior and Local Government and the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation on the operation of the Loterya ng Bayan which is a legal form of gambling. *(RC-PIA CAR)