CEBU – The Philippine National Police said it released over P26 million in financial assistance to 10,132 policemen in the Visayas affected by Typhoon Haiyan last year.
Police Director Jaime Morente said the fund was sourced from donations from the Armed Forces and Police Savings and Loan Association Inc (AFPSLAI), Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund Inc (PSMBFI), Public Safety Savings and Loan Association Inc (PSSLAI) and the PNP Provident Fund (PNPPF).
According to Morente, 235 police personnel received financial assistance from the PNPPF and AFPSLAI totaling P976,000. And a total of 5,521 beneficiaries received P21,056,000 from donations by the PSMBFI while 4,376 other PNP beneficiaries each received P1,120.24 from a P4.9-million grant by PSSLAI.
Morente said police personnel whose residential property suffered total or heavy damage are entitled to P5,000 financial assistance, while those whose houses were partially damaged are entitled to P3,000.
The orphaned family of police personnel who died in the typhoon are entitled to receive P10,000 financial assistance on top of the death benefits due, Morente said.
The police also allotted P335 million for infrastructure rehabilitation and reconstruction work to restore facilities.
In Eastern Visayas, the hardest hit among the Police Regional Offices, some P294 million were earmarked to rehabilitate 183 damaged police stations and office buildings in the region.
Construction work is ongoing to rebuild 15 municipal police station buildings in Leyte each costing Php 4.6 million. Seven other municipal police stations in the province are undergoing various stages of the required administrative and technical processes to commence reconstruction.
Repair work is also ongoing in other heavily damaged support facilities and offices at the regional headquarters in Palo town also in Leyte. (Mindanao Examiner)
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