MORE COPS. Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Trenas welcomes Interior Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. during the turnover of Support to Barangay Development Program projects in Barangay Dungon B. on Wednesday (Jan. 18, 2022). Trenas, in an interview, said he will request additional police personnel for the city.(PNA photo by PGLena) ILOILO CITY - Iloilo City needs at least 1,000 more police officers for its 500,000 residents to meet the 1:500 police-to-population ratio. "Here in Iloilo we provide police cars, we even provided the police with their firing range, firearms and ammunitions, canine. We have so much support for our police," Mayor Jerry Trenas in an interview on Wednesday, noting that they lack warm bodies. He said he will request more police officers from the Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. to beef up the number of law enforcers. Annually the city government allocates a minimum of PHP50 million