AWARD. Brig. Gen. Flynn Dongbo, director of Police Regional Office-Western Visayas, awards the Philippine National Police Wounded Personnel Medal to Lt. Charles Richard Casalan, deputy chief of Binalbagan Municipal Police Station, at a hospital in Bacolod City on Monday (Feb. 14, 2022). Casalan was injured when NPA rebels detonated an anti-personnel mine by the roadside while his team was responding to a call for assistance on February 13.(Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office) BACOLOD CITY - All stations and units under the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) have strengthened security operations after two policemen were wounded in a roadside blast perpetrated by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) in the southern town of Binalbagan on February 13. "After the incident, we have switched to full alert status. We don't want any incident like that to happen again in our police stations especially those in v