NAGA CITY -- Senior Supt. Romeo Tambungui has vowed to stamp out the resurgence of jueteng operation in several towns in Camarines Sur that started last week.

        Tambungui said that he has already sent all chiefs of police in Camarines Sur to follow strictly the “one-strike” policy order of the Philippine National Police against the illegal numbers game.

        He said it has been his duty to continuously enforce the policy that chiefs of police are answerable to the line of command and can be dismissed from their posts if another police group is able to apprehend even just one bet collector.

        Tambungui said that jueteng here is a guerilla-type and that he said no one has approached him about the resurgence of jueteng because the people behind the illegal numbers game knew that he would not tolerate, its illegal operation.

        The police director, who was chosen by Gov. Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte to head the provincial police force, was specifically assigned here to keep jueteng from operating again.

        Villafuerte late last year has written the police national command in Manila to replace Senior Supt. Romeo Mapalo because he cannot stop the jueteng operation and proliferation in Camarines Sur.

        But the police national command failed to act on the request of the governor and waited Mapalo to retire after the election.

        The governor said that he would not allow the operation of jueteng here as a matter of policy.

        The jueteng operation stopped since May this year until it resurges in several towns of Camarines Sur during the weeklong celebration of the Peñafrancia fiesta.