24/04/2020
PRESS RELEASE
Subject: PNP Caraga donates Php6.7million for COVID-19 fight
Date: April 24, 2020
Camp Col Rafael C Rodriguez, Butuan City--------- In consonance with the Philippine National Police (PNP) Bayanihan Challenge, Police Regional Office (PRO) 13 have donated Php6,741,000 to help the governmentβs efforts against coronavirus disease 2019.
From its target collection of Php6,386,000, PRO13 raised Php 6,741,000.The total amount was raised from 6,386 uniformed and non-uniformed personnel assigned to the headquarters of PRO13, provincial/city police offices, police stations and mobile forces in Caraga region.
PRO13 top cop Brigadier General Joselito T. Esquivel, Jr and the Deputy Regional Director for Administration Police Colonel Jimili L. Macaraeg led the challenge who contributed half of their base bay.
No specific amount of how much should be contributed by the PNP personnel and NUP's. It is purely voluntary for we know that each has their family to feed and to provide essentials especially now that we are facing this pandemic, RD Esquivel said.
The donations for the Team PNP Bayanihan Fund Challenge will be turned-over to the Finance Service which in turn will deposit it to the PNP SUPPORT FUNDS at the Land bank of the Philippines.