Will be sending today, April 10, 2012, my letter to General Nicanor Bartolome on an alleged buy-bust operation conducted by members if the Laoag City Police Station. They barged into the wrong house where they were supposed to arrest an alleged drug pusher, Victor Padayao, 44. The homeowners were not in the house at that time and only their children and their children's relatives were left in their abode. The head of the 4-men police team that raided the house was a certain SPO4 Rovimanuel V.

Balolong. Some people have filed complaints against Balolong with the PIAS in Camp Juan, Provincial PNP headquarters, and a decision or decisions were made against him. Copies of the PIAS' resolutions were forwarded to higher Ilocos PNP officials. But the PNP regional office, apparently did not discipline Balolong. And he has been doing things in his own abrasive ways.I am sending the Bartolome letter as a freelance journalist. I intend also to get the attention of the President of the Philippines regarding the matter.

Photo captions: A view of the Padsan river (top) from the dike, my ID as a correspondent of the Philippine's most influential newspaper, where I was a reporter since 1996; and the provincial capitol of Ilocos Norte.