Talus kid wins CenMin's PNP essay writing match

Talus kid named PRO-12 awardee – Talus Nat’l High School 9th grader Erde Sanchez of Malungon town receives a prestigious plaque from P/Chief Supt. Manolito Labador, police deputy director for administration in Central Mindanao Region Monday (July 27), during the culmination of the month-long Philippine National Police Community Relations celebration at the PRO-12 Regional Headquarters in General Santos City. Sanchez, after dominating the municipal and provincial level, won third prize in the police-initiated regionwide essay writing contest dubbed as “Matibay na Ugnayan ng Mamamayan at Pulisya, Simbolo ng Kapayapaan at Kaunlaran ng Sambayanan.” With Sanchez is teacher-coach, Cerlyn Abellon. (Isagani Palma – MIO/ PNP-MAC, Malungon).

New breed of scribes – Center, Talus Nat’l High School 9th grader Erde Sanchez is flanked (from left) by Leoben Cadiente, Malungon Police Station asst. PCR in charge, and school teacher-coach Cerlyn Abellon for a memento shot right after receiving third prize in the region-wide search for student writers during the Monday (July 27) culmination of the Philippine National Police Community Relations month celebration dubbed as “Matibay na Ugnayan ng Mamamayan at Pulisya, Simbolo ng Kapayapaan at Kaunlaran ng Sambayanan,” at PRO-12 Headquarters in Brgy. Tambler, General Santos City. Sanchez in the early rounds, bagged primary prizes in the PNP-initiated search, under the municipal and provincial level competitions. (Isagani Provido Palma – MIO/ PNP-MAC, Malungon).

MALUNGON, Sarangani – A secondary student from the Talus National High School here made through for another prestigious win in the recently held ‘essay writing’ competition during the celebration of the Philippine National Police PCR Month in Central Mindanao Region, which ended - Monday. 

P03 Leoben N. Cadiente, the Malungon Police Station PCR assistant head, said TNHS student Erde P. Sanchez was officially endorsed by the Sarangani Police Provincial Command to the recently held ‘essay writing’ competition at the regional level, after bagging both primary prizes in the municipal and provincial class competitions. 

Nominated as the local student champion, Sanchez bags 3rd prize in the entire regional search for student writers that was kept in line with the month-long celebration of the Philippine National Police Public Community Relations month dubbed as “ Matibay na Ugnayan ng Mamamayan at Pulisya, Simbolo ng Kapayapaan at Kaunlaran ng Sambayanan.”

Accompanied by teacher-coach Ms. Cerlyn Abellon, Sanchez and the rest of the named winners and award recipients in three separate categories to wit: local Gov’t chief executives (LCE), police personnel and scholars, all of Central Mindanao Region, took in their prestigious plaques of appreciation and prizes from no less P/Chief Supt. Manolito C. Labrador, the PRO-12 police deputy regional director for administration on July 27, amid the PCR month’s culmination ceremony at the Provincial Police Headquarters in Brgy. Tambler, General Santos City. 

Reports said Labador officiated the activity vice regional police chief P/Chief Superintendent Lester O. Camba, who attended in time, the President’s presentation of his State of the Nation Address in Manila. 

Mayor Reynaldo F. Constantino, who recently rendered his last and final state of the public address during the culmination of Malungon town’s five-day (July11-15) 46th Foundation Anniversary celebration, said what the 9th-grader student has shown is of clear indication of the rising caliber of kids in terms of their capabilities in education, in the locality. “I am confidently looking forward that someday, my town will have a lot of local-based journalists of her own,” the three-termer local chief executive, who is scheduled to exit his post in 2016, said. 

Attended by various schools, the local search was stressed at the midst of the celebration, which is among last few remaining days of then Malungon Station Chief of Police, PCI Jaime Tabucon, before he officially relinquished the same to his then deputy-turned OIC, PSI Arman C. Tuban of PNPA batch 2009. Tabucon is set to retire with an unblemished record on September, this year. (MIO/ PNP-MAC, Malungon)