CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 ordered all mobile force commanders, provincial and city directors, and municipal chiefs of police in the Caraga region on Thursday, June 22, to step up their campaign against loose firearms ahead of the 2023 Barangay and SK...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 (PRO-13) has seized 578 loose firearms and 78 explosives from Jan. 1 to the present in line with the intensified crackdown against loose firearms and security measures for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in the...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police recovered four unregistered firearms in the Cordillera region on Saturday, May 20. Reports submitted to Police Regional Office-Cordillera Director Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr. said two loose firearms were surrendered to the Abra Provincial Police Office,...
SARIAYA, Quezon – A 44-year-old man who was the subject of a search warrant for violation of the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Act died in a shootout with police early Saturday morning, May 6, in Barangay Concepcion Banahaw in this town. Sariaya police identified the fatality as...
ILIGAN CITY – Authorities seized high-powered firearms during a checkpoint at Grebona Patrol Base on the Bukidnon-Alamada-Libungan Highway in Libungan, North Cotabato on Thursday morning, May 4. The 34th Infantry Battalion and Libungan police flagged down a silver Toyota Vios with license plates ...
ILIGAN CITY – Mayor Nursiya Ismael of Lantawan, Basilan has turned over 34 loose firearms surrendered by constituents to the military in a ceremony at the 19th Special Forces Company headquarters in Barangay Tabuk, Isabela City, Basilan. Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force Basilan...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Eleven wanted persons were arrested and loose firearms were seized in the Caraga region over the weekend, the Police Regional Office 13 reported on Monday, March 20. Suspects were apprehended on Saturday, March 18, during the implementation of search...
Making gun ownership more expensive in the Philippines will reduce the proliferation of loose firearms. (Maxx/ Unsplash) That's the premise of House Bill (HB) No.3367, mainly authored by Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte. In essence, the measure seeks to promote responsible gun...
Police raided the house of a 47-year-old man and arrested him after he yielded undocumented firearms and explosives in Barangay Rizal, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija on Tuesday, Feb 7. A report to Col. Richard V. Caballero, Nueva Ecija police chief, said the suspect had two hand grenades, a caliber .45...
ILIGAN CITY – The mayor of the municipality of Hadji Muhtamad in Basilan turned over 23 loose firearms surrendered by residents on Monday, Jan. 30. AUTHORITIES receive 23 loose firearms turned over by a municipal mayor from Basilan. (Photo via Bonita Ermac) Mayor Arsina Nanoh handed over these...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar, Police Regional Office-Cordillera chief, reported that 92 individuals were arrested and 1,149 assorted guns were seized in the intensified campaign against loose firearms in the region in 2022. Bazar said the Kalinga Provincial Police Office had...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police arrested on Friday, Jan. 6, an Indonesian and two Filipinos for transporting unlicensed high-powered firearms in Kiamba, Sarangani. Major Ludovico Rendaje, Kiamba police chief, identified the suspects as Indonesian Anton Gobay, 29, and his Filipino companions...
