Bohol Police Provincial Director (PD) Col. Joselito Clarito taps Capt. Gerald Luna as the new chief of police (COP) of Dauis town replacing Lt. Bonifacio Tañola.

Luna will be formally assuming his post tomorrow, Feb. 8, 2021, the PD told The Bohol Tribune in an exclusive telephone interview.

On the other hand, Tañola is in isolation as he tested positive for Coronavirus disease (Covid) after arriving from his Cebu trip.

He will be assigned to Camp Francisco Dagohoy after completing his quarantine, Clarito said. Clarito added that Tañola will not anymore be going back as Chief of Police in Dauis town. 

The provincial director said that he already ordered an investigation on the allegations thatTañola violated health and safety protocols following his arrival in Bohol from Cebu. 

“I already ordered an investigation on the [former] chief of police ng Dauis na nag positive [sa Covid],” Clarito said in the telephone interview.

The relief of Tañola comes at the wake of personnel from the Dauis police station contracting the Covid disease after the arrival of Tañola from his Cebu trip

Yesterday afternoon, Feb. 6, 2021, Mayor Marietta Sumaylo reported another one of Tañola’s first generation contacts who tested positive for Covid bringing the total of police station personnel infected with the Covid virus to nine (9).

Tañola tested positive for Covid on Jan. 30,2021 after arriving from Cebu, a place where he recently had his schooling activities. .

It was alleged that Tañola was fetched by a non-uniformed personnel (NUP) in Tubigon upon the former’s arrival from Cebu. It was further alleged that from Tubigon, Tañola did not go to his quarantine area, as mandated by the protocol. Instead, It was purported that Tañola went to directly see his men for some instructions. There are also allegations that Tañola went to attend fiesta celebration in one of the houses in a barangay in Dauis. This house allegedly, is where one of his men lives, and the man, eventually is infected with the virus a reason that the house is on a lockdown status now. 

The former COP of Dauis, allegedly, after arriving from Cebu, visited his police station prior to his entry into a quarantine facility. This was mentioned by Sumaylo in a radio interview over NEWSMAKERS program on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021 hosted by the mother and son tandem of Ardy and Chandymar Araneta-Batoy.

BREAKDOWN

According to Sumaylo the total active cases in Dauis as of yesterday afternoon is pegged at 24.

The breakdown of cases is as follows: 

  • one police personnel assigned at Camp Dagohoy
  • the former COP of Dauis
  • a person who was about to travel to Dubai
  • two (2) beauticians who work in Tagbilaran but live in Dauis
  • three (3) persons who contracted the virus from one of the beauticians
  • three (3) other persons who contracted the virus from a Covid-positive patient from Guindulman. This Guindulman resident, stayed for some time in Dauis before getting tested for Covid at the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH). The person is counted under the town of Dauis as he/she stayed in the town for quite some time.
  • another Dauis person who caught the virus from another person who is a resident of Carmen town
  • nine (9) personnel of the Dauis police station
  • two (2) persons who were about to travel outside of Bohol and whose swab tests proved positive.