ILOILO CITY – A five-day gun ban will be implemented to secure the Manggahan Festival and 31st founding anniversary of the island-province of Guimaras next week. The Philippine National Police (PNP) has approved the request of the provincial government to suspend Permits to Carry Firearms Outside...
CEBU CITY – The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) has started its threat assessment in barangays as part of the tight security that will be enforced in the upcoming Barangay and Sanggunian Kabataan Elections (BSKE). Negros Oriental is one of the areas that will be given more attention...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Sixty-three individuals wanted by the law were arrested during an unrelenting operation conducted by the Police Regional Office-Cordillera from April 23 to April 29. The PRO-Cordillera’s anti-criminality campaign also resulted in the 52 municipalities in the region...
CAMP Marcelo A. Adduru, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – The Police Regional Office-2 has vowed a peaceful and safe observance of Labor Day. Police Brig. Gen. Percival A. Rumbaoa, PRO-2 director, ordered maximum police presence in Region 2, particularly in areas where different sectoral groups,...
BOHOL Gov. Aris Aumentado (left) and Police Col. Lorenzo Batuan (right), Bohol Police Provincial Office chief, discuss the series of shooting incidents in the province in the past few weeks. (Contributed photo) Gov. Aris Aumentado recently met Police Col. Lorenzo Batuan, chief of the Bohol Police...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office (PRO)-13 nabbed 74 wanted persons and 99 law violators during a six-day Simultaneous Anti-Criminality Law Enforcement Operations (SACLEO) from April 18 to 23. PRO-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Pablo G. Labra II said 12 were most...
TINGLAYAN, Kalinga – The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity (OPAPRU) joined the local government units (LGUs) of Sadanga, Mountain Province, and Tinglayan, Kalinga, in asking the feuding tribes to keep sobriety and calmness following the killing of a hunter from...
Senator Chiz Escudero Just implement the law evenly, consistently, and without fear or favor. This was the proposed solution of Senator Francis ‘’Chiz’’ Escudero to the break down of peace and order in Negros Oriental. After a three-day public hearing triggered by the brazen assassination...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-8 deployed on Wednesday, April 19, 72 additional policemen to boost security in Calbayog City, Samar following an ambush in which four persons were killed and three others wounded on April 14 in Barangay Victory. A POLICE chaplain blesses 72 policemen...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – The Police Regional Office-Cordillera said the observance of the Holy Week in the region was relatively peaceful. PRO-Cordillera chief Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr. said no major security-related incidents were reported and only one drowning incident in Kalinga and...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – The Police Regional Office-1 has reported that index crimes in the Ilocos region went down by 44 percent during the Holy Week compared to the same period last year. Only nine incidents were reported from April 3 to 9, nine fewer that than the 16 logged from April 11 to...
ILOILO CITY – The commemoration of Holy Week in Western Visayas was generally peaceful, the Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 said. TWO police officers secure citizens of Iloilo City during the Holy Week. (Tara Yap) The number of crimes decreased during the Holy Week compared to the same period last...
