CEBU CITY -- Career advancement. Brig. Gen. Roderick Augustus Alba cited this as the reason why he was relieved as regional director of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7). “This (relief) is a preparatory to a two-star rank later on if given the chance,” Alba said after the...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police arrested 25 wanted persons in the Cordillera region from Dec. 11 to 17. The Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division (RIDMD) of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera said the Baguio City Police Office had the highest number of arrests with eight,...
Police scored in the campaign against crime with the arrest of two suspected drug pushers and four wanted persons and confiscation of shabu and a loose firearm in Nueva Ecija. A report on Wednesday, Dec. 21, from Col. Richard V. Caballeron, officer-in-charge, Nueva Ecija police, said two drug...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar, Cordillera police chief, reminded Cordillera policemen to refrain from soliciting and accepting gifts during this holiday season. "I am reminding our personnel not to solicit or accept any gift especially if it will affect their service to...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Seventeen police officers, including the officer-in-charge of Don Carlos Municipal Police Station in Bukidnon province, have been relieved because of dirty and messy stations, and non-proper wearing of police uniform. Col. Reynante Reyes, the provincial director of the...
CAMP MARECELO A. ADDURU, Tuguegarao City – Brigadier General Percival Antolin Rumbaoa has formally assumed his post as the new regional director of Police Regional Office-Region 2 on Monday, Dec. 19. BGen. Rumbaoa replaced BGen. Steve B. Ludan who relinquished his position after reaching the...
CAMP GENERAL FRANCISCO S. MACABULOS, Tarlac City – Tarlac Police Provincial Office’s weeklong conduct of anti-criminality campaign in Tarlac Province from Dec. 12 to Dec. 18 resulted in the arrest of 67 law violators. Out of the 67 arrested, 23 were wanted persons who have pending cases of...
CAMP Gen. Francisco S. Macabulos, Tarlac City – Police arrested a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Balete here on Sunday night, Dec. 18. Lt. Col. Jim F. Helario, chief of police here, identified the suspect as Adrin Landicho, 32, of Barangay San Juan Bautista, Tarlac...
‘SAM,’ a native dog or ‘asong Pinoy’ (Aspin), is treated after he was shot by unidentified culprits in Cebu City. (Photo from Happy Tails Philippines) CEBU CITY – Police are investigating a reported case of animal abuse after two men shot a stray dog in Barangay Duljo here recently. Col....
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Police are hunting motorcycle riding-in-tandem gunmen who shot and killed an off-duty Marine here on Sunday, Dec. 18. “There are several angles that investigators are looking into the daring attack against Marine Staff Sgt. Rodolfo Magno Jr., a member of Philippine Marine...
MALAYSIAN Imran Bin Muhalir after his arrest in Zamboanga City during an operation by the PDEA and city police. (PDEA photo) ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities arrested a 22-year-old Malaysian and seized suspected shabu valued at P68,000 in a buy-bust operation in Upper Calarian here last Friday, Dec....
TACLOBAN CITY – Police are still in pursuit of a man who yielded over P2-million worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust operation here recently. A total of 300 grams of shabu were purchased from the suspected drug pushers, Arnold Lanonte Froilan, 26, a resident of Barangay 71, this city; and...