BUTUAN CITY – At least 456 runners participated in the fifth 13th Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB) fun run dubbed “Run Move for Betterment” on Sunday, June 25.
WINNERS in the 13th Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB) fun run dubbed ‘Run Move for Betterment’ in Butuan City on Sunday, June 25. (Mike U. Crismundo)
A Zumba early in the morning before the runners from the different line agencies of the government and private sector answered the starting gun at 4:30 a.m. in front of the FSUU Gym here for the 21-kilometer run.
The run for a cause was in partnership with the city government of Butuan, media, and other stakeholders and in support of the Police Regional Office-13 (PRO-13) anti-criminality efforts.
The proceeds from the event will be used to support the RMFB-13 project dubbed “Wheels of Hope” which aims to provide wheelchairs for the less-fortunate and physically impaired persons in the barangays where police officers of the revitalized “Pulis sa Barangay” have been deployed.
“Aside from helping the participants to become physically fit, this activity is also one way of calling the people’s cooperation and support to our anti-criminality efforts,” stressed PRO-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Pablo G. Labra II.
Labra also said that the program is also in full support of the ongoing revitalized Pulis sa Barangay.
“We are now securing our barangays against crime, with the deployment of more policemen in every barangay in this capital city of Northeastern Mindanao,” said Labra.
Winners were Rico Jay Patanao (21-kilometer Male Category), Janette Mendoza (21-km Female Category), William Lumindas (10-km Male Category), Afjeel T. Clampiano (10-km Female Category), Jay Duhac (five-km Male Category), Sam Jahllel Jongko (five-km Female Category), Herald Jay I. Patanao (three-km Male Category), and Andrea Pelien (three-km Female Category).
