More firecrackers were seized while 60 persons were penalized for using open pipe mufflers in Muntinlupa on New Year’s Eve. According to the Muntinlupa City government, as of 5 p.m. on Dec. 31, nearly 4,000 pieces of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices including 52 improvised “boga” were...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office advised motorists to drive carefully this long New Year’s weekend. Police urged motorists to check not only their vehicles but also rest their body and mind before driving to prevent vehicular accidents. The Pangasinan PPO issued...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – The Police Regional Office 4-B (Mimaropa or the Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan area) will remain visible in all travel routes, transport terminals, and other places of convergence, including tourist sites, in the region....
Muntinlupa police have confiscated more than 1,500 pieces of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices amid a ban in the city. Muntinlupa City Ordinance No. 14-092 prohibits “the manufacture, display, sale, distribution, possession or use of firecrackers or pyrotechnic devices and such other similar...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Police on Friday, Dec. 30, destroyed all confiscated illegal firecrackers and pyrotechnics in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) worth a total of P59, 715. Regional Civil Security Unit 2 assistant chief Lt. Col. Romulo Talay said these were picollo, poppop, five star,...
Two men, one of them a 62-year-old, were arrested by the police in a buy-bust operation in Taguig on Dec. 30. The Taguig police identified the suspects as Rasid Tiagon, 62, and Esmael Wakid, 40, who were arrested by members of the Drug Enforcement Unit at about 12:30 a.m. along Balanaken Street in...
A suspected member of a drug syndicate who yielded shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) was arrested by the police in Taguig City on Dec. 28. Personnel from the Taguig police’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and Substation 6 conducted “Oplan Galugad” along Manggahan Street in Barangay...
CAMP Marcelo Adduru, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Police Regional Office 2 chief Brig. Gen. Percival Rumbaoa has warned citizens and police in Cagayan Valley against the indiscriminate firing of guns and use of illegal firecrackers to celebrate the New Year. RUMBAOA (Photo via Liezle Basa-Inigo)...
CORDILLERA region police chief Mafelino Bazar (left) during a visit to a police station in Benguet. (FB) CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police Regional Office-Cordillera chief Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar on Tuesday, Dec. 26, said that Christmas in the region was generally peaceful. "We have not monitored...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office 8 said the Christmas celebration in Eastern Visayas this year was generally peaceful. Brig. Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil, PRO 8 director, said no major untoward incident was recorded during the nine-dawn “Simbang Gabi” (dawn Mass) and Christmas Eve...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police arrested 10 suspected drug pushers and seized P42-M illegal drugs in the Cordillera region from Dec. 18 to 24. The Police Regional Office-Cordillera Regional Operations Division (ROD) said the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) arrested eight drug personalities...
Two women will be welcoming the New Year in jail after they were arrested for suspected shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) during a buy-bust operation in Taguig on Dec. 27. Members of the Taguig police’s Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) arrested the two suspects during an anti-illegal drug...
