Police Maj. Gen. Felipe Natvidad, director of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), has tasked all its concerned units to make sure that all the arrested gun ban violators in Metro Manila during the election period will be punished. A total of 3,651 gun ban violators were arrested from...
POLICE in Anilao, Iloilo conduct a checkpoint as they implement the election gun ban. (Anilao PNP) ILOILO CITY – Police have arrested 240 gun ban violators across Western Visayas or Region 6 as the election period ended last Wednesday, June 8. “The arrests are the product of our close...
Nine persons were arrested by the police for alleged gun ban violations and suspected illegal drugs worth P281,600 in Pateros, Taguig, and Muntinlupa on June 7 and 8. On June 8, the Southern Police District’s Drug Enforcement Unit, together with the District Intelligence Division and District...
A man was arrested by the police for illegal possession of an improvised firearm in Barangay Alabang, Muntinlupa on June 6. The Muntinlupa police identified the suspect as Vincent Fabia, 23, a resident of Alabang. The firearm and ammunition confiscated from the suspect in Muntinlupa on June 6...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga -- Almost 3,000 long and short firearms and assorted deadly weapons and explosives have been confiscated from individuals who violated the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban. Police Regional Office 3 Regional Director Brigadier General Matthew P....
A total of 41 violators were reportedly involved in 245 vote buying incidents recorded from Jan. 1 to May 9, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said Wednesday night, May 11. In a news briefing with President Duterte aired on May 12, Año noted that the...
The police arrested a 37-year-old vendor after he was found in possession of a gun in violation of the existing gun ban implemented by the Commission on Election (Comelec) in connection with the May 9 national and local elections. Southern Police District (SPD) director Brig. Gen. Jimili Macaraeg...
BUTUAN CITY – The regional command of Northeastern Mindanao Police Regional Office 13 (PRO 13) reported on Wednesday that there were 23 election gun ban violators recorded all over Caraga region. These gun ban violators were registered from January this year up to yesterday, six days before the...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said the government has exempted the military and the police personnel from the gun ban implementation. Año explained that the ‘gun ban exemption’ is applied to the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Committee on the Ban on Firearms and Security Concerns has approved more than 2,000 applications for gun ban exemption. Comelec/MB Data released by the Office of Commissioner Socorro Inting showed a total of 4,381 applications 354 of which refiled. Of the...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Socorro Inting has resigned as head of the Committee on the Ban on Firearms and Security Concerns. Photo Comelec Her office confirmed her resignation on Tuesday, April 12. When asked for a statement, Inting's office shared this message from the poll...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has granted the exemption of senior government officials, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) organic agents, and election officers from the election gun ban in effect. Members of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) conduct random inspections on motorist...
