ILOILO CITY – Twenty-one individuals have been arrested for violating the election gun ban in Western Visayas. The Police Regional Office-6 said all the violators were civilians. The most recent violator was from Bacolod City, a 54-year-old man caught carrying a gun replica. POLICE conduct a...
CEBU CITY – Twenty-five persons have been arrested in Central Visayas since the election gun ban was enforced on Jan. 12, the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas said. The PRO-7 also said that 35 firearms – 13 pistols and 22 revolvers – and bullets were seized. Among...
BURDEOS, Quezon – Police apprehended a man for allegedly threatening to shoot his father with a shotgun on Thursday afternoon in Barangay Amot, this town. Investigation said the suspect, Ericson Alarma, pointed a 12-gauge shotgun at his father Reynaldo during an altercation. Reynaldo reported the...
BOLINAO, Pangasinan – A 42-year-old woman was allegedly shot dead by her drunk neighbor during a confrontation in Barangay Cabuyao here on Thursday, Jan. 23. Police identified the victim as Merlisa Caigas Castil. Investigation said Castil accosted the suspect, Danilo Ebelte Escala, 57, for...
At least 250 violators were apprehended in the first week of the nationwide implementation of gun ban for the midterm elections, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday, Jan. 21. The same election security resulted in the confiscation of 255 firearms. Based on the PNP data, Metro...
As the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban officially took effect last Sunday Jan. 12, 2025, signalling the start of the election period for the May 2025 National and Local Elections, various checkpoints were also deployed nationwide as part of the poll body's implementation of Resolution...
Police arrested 31 violators and confiscated at least 80 firearms on the first day of the implementation of the nationwide gun ban on Sunday, Jan. 12. Police Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo, spokesperson of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the aggressive operations against unauthorized possession...
BUTUAN CITY – Police arrested the first gun ban violator in the May elections in Northern Mindanao or Region 10. Police Regional Office 10-Regional Public Information Office chief Police Major Joann N. Navarro said the suspect was apprehended by the Tagoloan Municipal Police Station (MPS) of the...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – The Police Regional Office 4-A on Sunday launched Commission on Elections checkpoints to deter election violence and implement the gun ban in the Calabarzon region. POLICE conduct a Comelec checkpoint in Laguna. Lawmen conducted a checkpoint on the national highway in...
ILOILO CITY – A businessman in this city is the first violator of the gun ban in the 2025 elections in the Western Visayas region. The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) identified the suspect as Ryan who was arrested past 1 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, after he accidentally crashed his pickup truck...
The Southern Police District (SPD) started the implementation of the gun ban and Commission on Elections (Comelec) checkpoints in different areas under its jurisdiction on Jan. 12 in line with the May 12 national and local elections. “We urge the community to cooperate with law enforcement...
"Just follow the law. Our lives will be easy." This was the reminder of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia to the public as the gun ban officially takes effect Sunday Jan. 12, 2025, with the commencement of the election period for the May 2025 National and Local...
