Senior Supt. Edgardo Ingking, provincial director of the Philippine National Police (PNP), was checking reports yesterday that security guards were posted outside the property owned by Dr. Doloriech Dumaluan, former Panglao mayor. Supt. Ingking and the Panglao ex-mayor were locked in a running word war involving the former's insistence not to allow Dumaluan to visit a detainee in connection with a shooting incident in Panglao last August 25. The provincial director is still in a quandary why Dumaluan insisted to visit the detainee, identified as Teodulo Macalandag, when he was the suspect in shooting the former mayor. The shooting suspect was also wounded while the former mayor also suffered injury in the outbreak of violence involving the construction of a restaurant near the Dumaluan Beach Resort. At least six cases of attempted murder were filed by Dumaluan against Macalandag and several John Does.

According to Ingking, if his information were correct on the posting of the guards, he said he will not hesitate to order their pullout if they were found to be stationed not in the contractor's property. Supt. Ingking is checking reports that the guards were deployed outside the property of their contractor who happens to be Dumaluan. According to Ingking, posting guards outside the property of the contractor is a violation in the deployment of security guards. The PNP is the regulatory body charged with the duty of whether security agencies follow rules and procedures in the deployment of security units. No less than the property owner, Indian national Satish Nair was complaining to Supt. Ingking about the deployment of the guards right in the entrance of his property. A dog is also tied near the same location prompting the Indian national to stop construction of his restaurant.

Nair is married to Jacinta Lorejo, the heir of the property, situated just beside the beach resort of the former Panglao mayor. According to the Nair lawyer, the Tinampay Law Clinic, since last year, the Panglao investor was endlessly harassed by his neighbor after several attempts of Dumaluan to buy his wife's property. Since then, according to the law firm, there was no stopping the harassment culminating in the outbreak of violence on August 25. Dumaluan expressed interest to buy the Lorejo lot to expand the reach of his landholdings in the beach area of barangay Bolod. With his plan to buy the lot thwarted, Dumaluan, according to the law clinic, made the Lorejo-Nair property as the doctor's garbage area. The law firm said the Nairs spent P10,000 to clean the area of Dumaluan's garbage. In a press statement converted into a print ad, the legal counsels of the Nairs also narrated their ordeal when they constructed a fence around the area they owned. They said despite the “No Trespassing” sign, Dumaluan, with the use of firearms, allegedly threatened the workers. The workers fled their workplace for fear of threatening actions by the neighbor of the Nairs. With tension rising high, the Nairs decided to stop the construction while asking police assistance to stop Dumaluan and his cohorts to stop harassing them.