NEW Dagupan City police Officer-in-charge, Supt Dionisio Borromeo is showing the stuff of which the original Dagupan’s Finest were once made – dedicated, brave and no-nonsense.

His matching action with words has resulted – on just his first day in office – in the arrest of 16, count that, 16 suspected pushers in the city, a record catch by any language. If he keeps at it, we’re sure those infernal peddlers of the stuff in Dagupan who have made the city their playground for years now, may yet move to other safer grounds.

Borromeo, a Philippine Military Academy graduate, class 1986 and former group commander of the Police Regional Mobile Group at Camp Florendo in San Fernando City, La Union, surely deserves the quick commendation given him by the sangguniang panlungsod for what appears to be the beginning of a relentless drive against merchants of illegal drugs.

The drug trade in the city, in recent years, has been anything but contained. One need only makes the rounds of the city at night to notice many youths standing at corners or dim areas of the road, doing nothing but simply waiting, waiting for the peddler or customer to come on foot or on bikes. Poblacion or barangay, it doesn’t make a difference to the drug traders, this largely because they’ve been left pretty much unmolested. The cops have, on the whole, been content with targeting the big ones in their known lairs in Bonuan and on Fernandez –Nueva streets, forgetting pretty much the smaller sellers in sidestreets and barangay roads.

Under Borromeo’s watch, Dagupenos hope police vigilance is heightened. Just last week, on a single night again, he cleared the streets of youths who were out beyond 11 p.m., making those found outside explain their presence on the street. Way to go, we dare say.

Give these pushers and assorted vermins hell, Mr. Police Chief!
But do watch your back carefully too, sir.