IRIGA CITY -– This city’s police chief has been nominated for the 2007 search for the most outstanding public officials and employees of the Civil Service Commission.

        This was confirmed by P/Supt Tomasito T. Clet during an interview with local newsmen last Tuesday.

        “I’m quite happy about it; it’s already something for me, knowing that my efforts to serve the public are being recognized,” he stressed.

        Clet who hails from Tiwi, Albay was chosen as one of the country’s outstanding policemen in the service (C.O.P.S.), a project of Metrobank. The awardees were conferred with the prestigious award at Malacañang Palace.

        Clet was a product of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) who finished his course in 1983. Two years later, he was assigned at the then Daraga PNP as station commander at the age of 25.

        From Daraga, Clet was transferred to other police stations in Bicol and Metro Manila until he became PNP Iriga Chief on September 8, 2004 as a personal choice of Mayor Madelaine Alfelor Gazmen.

        Under his stewardship, the local police force was adjudged 2006 Best City Police Station in Bicol, a feat he had duplicated the following year.

        With his exemplary performance and accomplishments, the city officialdom took some steps and had succeeded to have Clet retained in his post, despite of the fact that his tour of duty was deemed to have gone beyond the maximum period allowed for station commander already overstaying.

        Clet’s laudable accomplishments include the apprehensions of more than 40 prohibited drug users and peddlers and of the city’s most wanted criminals charged for various criminal offense such as murder, rape, carnapping, robbery/hold-up and others.