Police Office headed by Igorot Cop PSupt. Allatog is Cebu's top performing police office

Bogo City PSupt. Allatog received recognition during  the "SUKOD" program 2017 (SUgbo KOntra Droga) Top Performing City Police Station of Cebu. Photo Credit || Bogo Police Station FB page.

Cordillera - Bogo City's Police Office headed by Supt, Byron Filog Allatog was given recognition as the top performing police office in Cebu during the annual Sugbo Kontra Droga (Sukod)

 ceremony conducted by the Cebu Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Office (CPADAO) on Monday.

It can be recalled that 39-year-old Allatog gained international popularity after a US-based newspaper The Washington Post lauded him and his office for making Bogo City drug free without any single man, woman or child killed. 

Byron Filog Allatog is an Igorot from Bontoc, Mountain Province who graduated from the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) class 2001. He is the current chief of police of Bogo City - a small municipality in the island of Cebu.

Prior to serving in Bogo City, Allatog has been a chief of police from different towns and provinces in the country such as in Tawi-tawi, Abra and Benguet.

Allatog also made waves as contingent in the United Nations Peacekeeping Efforts as member of the UN-Close Security and Protection Officer of the UN Police Commissioner and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Timor Leste.

He has taken numerous trainings and courses  in policing from different high-level police agencies like the Criminal Investigation and Detective Development Courses by the PNP Detective Schools, Supervisory Management and Criminal Investigation Course from the US Department of Justice, Police Intelligence Officers Course by the PNP Intelligence Training Group and FBI National Academy Session 265 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI).

The Cebu Oversight Committee on Illegal Drugs declared Bogo City drug-free making the city the first to have all his barangays free from illegal drugs.

The City's Anti Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) declared three cities in Cebu province winner in which Bogo City at the second place while Naga City declared the champion. 

Bogo City received cash reward of 150,000 pesos.