Policemen are prohibited from asking for COVID-19 jabs from any local government unit (LGU), Col. Romy Palgue, Negros Occidental provincial police director, said.
Several policemen in the province have already availed of COVID-19 vaccine shots through the help of the LGUs, but Palgue stressed that they were instructed by the higher headquarters not to ask for jabs.
“If the LGU will offer, then that’s the time that the police will be vaccinated,” he said in a press briefing Friday, July 30. Among the policemen in the province who got their COVID-19 jabs were those in San Carlos City and there are others, too, he added.
For the provincial police, Palgue said that they are dependent on the schedule set by the provincial government.
“The vaccination of the province is continuous. If there is a schedule and (vaccines) are available, they will call us,” he added.
He said that there is no schedule yet for the Philippine National Police COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
“We have three venues, and the police are allowed to choose where – we have the PNP vaccination center, the LGU vaccination center, and others. If the police chose others, they have to indicate the location,” Palgue said.
Palgue said that he has not been vaccinated against COVID-19 yet. “I still haven’t gotten mine yet. I still have an allergy. Let’s see if my allergy will go away after two years,” he joked.
As of July 30, the provincial police had nine active COVID-19 cases, he said, adding that he is hoping they will all recover.
Palgue said that the provincial police office and the Police Regional Office-6 had earlier turned over financial assistance to its COVID-hit personnel.*