Republic of the Philippines

National Police Commission

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE
Misamis Oriental Police Provincial Office
TAGOLOAN MUNICIPAL POLICE STATION
TAGOLOAN, MISAMIS ORIENTAL
(HOTLINE NO. 0917-7040-213)

I. Brief History of Tagoloan Police Station

The Tagoloan Police Station was created during the incumbency of then
Municipal Mayor Vivencio Valdehuesa sometimes in the year 1942 and the first Chief of
Police is a certain Sgt. Gomez and composed of only six (6) police officers.

The police officers during that time were sporting their uniform in Khaki with
upper long sleeves.

From the year 1980 to 1986, the Tagoloan Police Station was manned by a
bigger strength of thirty (30) policemen

The following Chiefs of Police and Officer-In-Charge had served this station
since the time of its founding;

P/Sgt Dioscoro Villaruel

P/Sgt Domingo Galindo
P/LT SALVADOR SISON
1LT LYNDELL A DESQUITADO,PC -1984-1985
P/MAJ MILO ESGUERRA - 1985-1986
P/CAPT FELINO NAGAC - 1986- 1987
P/MAJ MACRINO BACAL - 1987-1988
P/Sgt Jacinto R. Valdehuesa - 1988-1990
P/LT MANOLO OZAETA - 1990-1992
P/LT RAY V CUANICO - 1992- 1994
SPO3 Absalon Bautista - 1995-1996
SPO4 Jacinto R Valdehuesa - 1996- 1997
PSI RENE P SOLIDARIOS - 1998- 2000
SPO3 Domisardo Quilang - 2000-2001
PSI EMMANUEL T HEBRON - 2001-2003
P/INSP ELMER MERCADO - 2003
PCI ANTONIO C MADLOS - 2004
SPO1 Jaime B Ave - 2004
PSI NANETTE P ODCHIGUE - 2004-2005
PCI EMMANUEL T HEBRON - 2006 – June 2007
PSI PALMER Z TRIA - July 2007 – 2008
PSI NANNETTE P ODCHEGUE - 2008 – 2009
SPO3 Renerio A Cabanes - June 7 2009
PI EDWIN FURTON IPAN - 2009
PSI FE MABILEN BARSOBIA - Jan 2010
PSI ERENEO SABORAO RAMIREZ - Feb 2010 – 2012
 PSI MARICRIS YBAÑEZ MULAT - 2012 to 2016
PCI ALBART BACUG TARE - 2016 to 2018
PCI ALLAN TAGACTAC ONIANA - 2018 to September 2019
PMAJ ROGELIO VELASQUEZ MANALANG- Sept. 2019 to June 2020
PCPT MARK ALLAN PEGANO DUNGCA – JUNE 2020 to NOV. 2020
PMAJ RAMIL EUPIÑA AMATIAGA - Dec. 2020 to Nov. 2021
PMAJ REYNALDO PEOYLO SANDIGAN- Nov. 2021 to Jan. 2022
PMAJ JOSEPH DURANO HASIGAN - Jan. 2022 to June 2022
PMAJ RON M BABA -June 2022 to August 2022
PCPT ENRIQUE F DUNGOG - August 2022 to January 2024
PCPT RALPH REXSON L LAYUG - January 2024 to Present

The old building of Tagoloan Police Station was constructed beside the old
Municipal Hall and in the year 2005 during the incumbency of Municipal Mayor Yevgeny
Vincente B. Emano and Chief of Police PSI Nannette Priscion Odchigue the police station
was transferred to the building fronting the National Highway which was previously occupied
by the Municipal Planning and Development Office and since then the building is the
Headquarters of Tagoloan Police Station with an air-conditioned offices of the Chief of
Police, Investigation Section and Intelligence and Operation Section.

Because of the initiative of the former COP PSI MARICRIS Y MULAT and
through the support and effort of the late Mayor Paulino “Oloy” Yap Emano, the new Type A
PNP Building was constructed and materialized. The newly constructed building was turned-
over on March 23, 2017 and it was then blessed by REV. FR. ERENIO TACASTACAS of
Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Parish Priest. Since then, Tagoloan PNP personnel has
its own PNP Building, occupying in a more convenient, spacious, well ventilated, and
comfortable office to work in.

Tagoloan Municipal Police station is now composed of fifty (50) god-fearing,

committed and dedicated uniformed and non-uniformed personnel headed by their ever-
supportive OIC PCPT RALPH REXSON L LAYUG.

II. PCR Related Activities

1. Crime Prevention / Public Safety Projects

a. Establishment of Police Outposts

As one of the eight foundation initiatives and operational imperatives of the
PNP which is a police-community relationship, the Chief of Police Tagoloan Police Station
initiated and planned the establishment of police outpost with the help of different
stakeholders of the Tagoloan community as part of their commitment in ensuring the public
safety and reducing the fear and the incidence of crime in the municipality of Tagoloan. Thus
with the financial donation from the stakeholders of the community and the manpower
provided by the Barangay Peacekeeping Action team, three brand new police outpost were
constructed in three different strategic areas particularly in the business area of the
municipality.
These three police outpost has greatly served its purpose considering that
street crimes were lessen in that area because of the very visible police outpost manned by
police officers of Tagoloan Police Station.
 b. Donation of Firearms by the Local Government Unit
Tagoloan Police Station is composed of able-bodied police officers willing to
fight and risk their life against lawless elements in the municipality thus in-order of these
officers to perform their job efficiently and effectively, the Chief of Police has convinced the
good mayor of Tagoloan, Mayor Paulino Emano to donate firearms for policemen of
Tagoloan Police Station thus the local government of Tagoloan through it mayors has
donated 13 AK47 rifle, 7 caliber 45 Ruger Pistol and 4 Mossberg 12 gauge Shotgun.

c. Activation and Organizing of the Barangay Peackeeping Action Team

Tagoloan Police Station has acknowledged that the participation of the
community plays a vital role in crime prevention as it a fact that that the Philippine National
Police (PNP) and other law enforcement agencies cannot prevent crime from happening alone
thus realizing that crime prevention is everybody concern and to combat, prevent and
maintain peace and order situation in the municipality of Tagoloan, the utmost and sincere
help and all out support of the community is very needed.

With these realization, personnel from Tagoloan Police Station headed by its
energetic chief of police has constantly visited different barangays in the municipality and
thereby conducted lecture and orientation of crime prevention and organized the Barangay
Peackeeping Action Team (BPAT) in every barangay.
The BPAT members upon their organization were taught and harness in the
crime prevention, disaster preparedness, assistance to law enforcement and information
gathering.

d. Pulong-Pulong
Tagoloan Police Station has a good partnership with the barangay officials in
all of the Barangay of municipality of Tagoloan in the crime prevention programs wherein
the chief of police and some personnel has regularly attended the monthly meeting of the
Barangay officials to have a “pulong-pulong” or discussions with them relative to crime
prevention, responsibilities of Barangay pulis and other issues and concern of the officials in
relation to peace and order of their respective barangay.

e. Activation of PNP Tagoloan Hotline

Tagoloan Police Station has acknowledged that to be effective in all of their
crime prevention activities and projects, the police station must be closer and accessible to
the people especially those in need of assistance thus paved way to the activation of PNP
Tagoloan Globe hotline 09177040213 and calling cards bearing the hotline number were
distributed to the different schools, to people from all walks of life, business establishment
and stakeholders and tarpaulins were placed in all Barangay halls of all Barangays in the
municipality of Tagoloan so that people in need of assistance need not to travel all the way to
the police station as they will just simply call the hotline and they will expect that their
police will come in time.
 2. Community Assistance Project ( livelihood, cooperative, etc. )

c. Environmental protection and preservation of projects

d. Facilitation of employment / job opportunities

e. Tourism Promotion

f. Other related activities

Brief History of Municipality of Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental

The name TAGOLOAN was a product of a priest’s curiosity and interest to

seek the very source of a river which when flooded caused death of human and animals and
destruction of properties. It is told that after a week of climbing the hills and mountains on
foot and by horse he finally came upon his goal. He found the wellspring under a big rock
and so hidden as to defy discovery. The priest called it TAGO-OLOHAN, which means
CONCEALED SOURCE, from “Tago” (concealed), and “OLOHAN” (source). Later
especially the Spaniards changed this to the present name probable due to the difficulty of
pronouncing the word.

Another vision of the legend of Tagoloan is that it originated from Moslem

words, namely “tago” meaning “a place” and “oloan” meaning “head: or “chief”. Tagoloan
therefore means “the place of the chief”.

By whatever legend Tagoloan got its name, today it is considered the: Home
of the Tigers” owing to the disciplined people living in the municipality.

In terms of land area, previously, the municipality included Villanueva

towards the north, malitbog towards the east and barangays of Tablon, Agusan, Puerto, and
Bugo towards the west. However after a series of laws creating the municipalities of
Villanueva and Malitbog, the making of Cagayan De Oro a Chartered City, the boundaries of
Tagoloan were finally established along the Ala-e River towards the South and East, the
Tagpayao River towards the North and the Macalajar Bay towards the West.

With these fixed boundaries, the land area of Tagoloan had shrunk to only
7,938.9035 hectares. And yet this greatly shrunken land area still suffered further attrition by
Presidential Decree (P.D.) 538 which created the Phividec Industiral Estate in the later part of
1974 and set aside some 1,558.4000 hectares of prime and coastal land areas for its
multinational clientele.

That declaration of part of Tagoloan as area for Phividec Industrial Estate

paved the way for the industrialization of the municipality.

Thus Tagoloan shall maintain her role as the heart and hub of industrialization
of Misamis Oriental and the Cagayan-Iligan Corridor stretch. Together with its adjacent
municipal-neighbor Villanueva, Tagoloan shall also strengthen its role as the regional
industrial center of Northern Mindanao (Region X).
 At present, Tagoloan is a 1st class according in income class municipality in
the province of Misamis Oriental and the first municipality east of Misamis Oriental . It is
South of Cagayan de Oro City and East of Malitbog, Bukidnon. It is about 19 kilometers
from the provincial capital of Cagayan de Oro City. It is residential and industrial
municipality, it has 6 High schools, 1 college, and 2 hospitals. Tagoloan uses the zip code
9001 based on the List of Philippine Zip Codes and has 28,064 registered voters on 2010 with
a latest total population of 90,226 as of 2021.

The municipality of Tagoloan is divided into ten barangays, namely:

Poblacion, Baluarte, Casinglot. Sta Ana, Sta Cruz, Mohon, Sugbongcogon, Rosario, Gracia,
and Natumolan and has total land area of 7,938 hectares represents 2.24 percent of Misamis
Oriental’s total area of 354,770 hectares.

Among the barangays, Sta Ana is the largest, comprising 37 percent of the
municipality’s land area. Barangays Rosario, which includes contested areas between
Municipality of Tagoloan and Municipality of Malitbog, Bukidnon and Sta Cruz, occupy
relatively bigger areas (11.2%) than the other nine barangays. The Gross Population Density
of Tagoloan in 2004 is 650 persons per square kilometer.

The land area of Tagoloan is suitable for six major uses, which include
protection forest, plantation forest, rice, tree and vine, pasture and cultivated crops. About
2,405 hectares or 30 percent of Tagoloan’s total area are suitable for forest uses. Riceland is
suitable for 2,199 hectares or about 28 percent, while the cultivation of annual crops are
suited for 2,024 hectares or about 25 percent. Tagoloan River that is located beside Barangay
Poblacion is the 13th largest river system in the Philippines.