After more than a year, we set foot for the first time at Camp Dagohoy upon learning that Sr. Supt. Edgar Ingking already assumed office as the new provincial director of the Philippine National Police in Bohol.

Whatever reasons we have in not entering the PNP provincial office, we just keep it rather than discuss a litany of grounds to the detriment of the personal choice of Gov. Erico Aumentado to lead the Bohol policemen after the retirement of Sr. Supt. Sancho Bernales.

We observed from the sidelines when Ingking assumed office but until today, he created no much fuss about it and remained, like Bernales, in a very low profile.

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Last Sunday, we got the chance to have a long chat with the new PNP boss during the birthday bash of our brother, Linde, who marked his __th (please fill in the blank) birthday.

From our conversation, we learned that Ingking immediately restored the full amount of subsidy given by the PNP provincial office to various police stations all over the province.

No one might have complained but for more than a year, chiefs of police all over Bohol were silently complaining when Ingking's predecessor cut almost by half the amount of their monthly subsidy for reasons only known to him.

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The litany could go and on but again, we just keep this lest we offend Gov. Aumentado who handpicked Ingking's predecessor, the only PNP provincial director who personally opens the governors car, salutes him and takes his hand and places it in the forehead.

Be that as it may, Ingking, fresh from his stint in the UN Peacekeeping Mission abroad, also adopted a very tight austerity measure to restore the fiscal viability at Camp Dagohoy now being plagued with a long list of debts. In other words, Ingking is up to a very tall order of saving the PNP provincial police in Bohol.

But one thing we admire most with Ingking is his policy of a low profile and modest leadership. It maybe early to judge his stint as the PNP chief in Bohol but if Ingking continues the way he is running Camp Dagohoy, a star in his shoulder board may not come that late.

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Surprisingly, the hottest buy-back issue is quickly relegated in the sidelines after hugging the headlines in the local newspapers several weeks ago.

IN the meantime, the impending water rate increase continue to be hanging like the proverbial Sword of Damocles over city water consumers.

Not only that, the forthcoming power rates hike "manifested" by Bohol Light with the Energy Regulatory Commission will be subjected to a public hearing on Feb. 9.

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Finally, the Loboc epidemic brought the province once again into the national limelight.

Until today, there is no concrete culprit being identified by health authorities behind the epidemic which resulted to the hospitalization of more than 300 Loon resident with at least four persons reportedly dead.

The contamination so far was being blamed to the water supply in the municipality which cause could not be known as of press time.

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