Ilongga is COPS 2010 awardee

An Ilongga was named one of the Top 10 Country’s Outstanding Policemen in Service or COPS for 2010 by the Metrobank Foundation.

PO3 Shella Mae Sangrines, chief of complaints and investigation section of the Regional Women and Children Protection Desk at Camp Delgado, Iloilo City, was declared one of the winners of COPS in the police non-commissioned officers category.

She will receive a cash prize of P250,000 and a trophy to be awarded by President Benigno Simeon Aquino III during a ceremony at Malacañang on August 31.

Sangrines now joins the elite roster of outstanding policemen in the country honored by Metrobank Foundation, Rotary Club of New Manila East, and PSBank.

Metrobank Foundation Inc. president Aniceto Sobrepeña also invited Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog to join in honoring the Ilongga awardee and nine other exemplary members of the PNP during the awarding rites, the City Public Information Office said.

Now on its eighth year, the annual COPS search is a tribute to the outstanding men and women of the Philippine National Police who exemplify excellence in solving and preventing crimes in their community and integrity as members of the PNP.

“These outstanding policemen and women are a testament of our police force’s dedication to their sworn duty and professionalism towards performing their responsibilities. We give honor to the exemplary members of the PNP who have worked together with their communities in crime solution and prevention,” Sobrepeña said in a statement.

The COPS winners were chosen from a pool of almost 100 nominees. The awardees have gone through a thorough screening process which involved documents review and a panel interview conducted by a board of judges composed of key personalities in various sectors of society.

The Final Board of Judges was co-chaired by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, then chair of Commission on Human Rights, and Supreme Court Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo.

The members include Dr. Jose Ma. Arsenio Mariano, president of University of Asia and the Pacific; Atty. Eusebio Tan, president of Management Association of the Philippines; Atty. Jose Tale, chairman of Couples for Christ; Paul Schafer, resident representative of Hanns Seidel Foundation; and Joel Reyes Zobel, a broadcast journalist.