ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe on Monday, Feb. 13, led the inauguration of this city’s mobile command center, a state-of-the-art van that can be deployed for rapid surveillance. ZAMBOANGA City’s state-of-art mobile command center was inaugurated on Monday, Feb. 13. (Zamboanga City LGU...
BAGUIO CITY – The grand opening of the Panagbenga Festival here on Wednesday, Feb. 1, was generally peaceful, police said. POLICE line up on Session Road in Baguio City to secure the grand opening parade of the Panagbenga Festival on Feb. 1. (Photo via Zaldy Comanda) City police chief Col....
Consul General Ishikawa Yoshihisa, of the Japan Consul General Office in Davao, committed to support the military’s peacekeeping initiatives in Mindanao. Photo: Western Mindanao Command / WestMinCom Ishikawa made the pledge when he visited the headquarters of the Western Mindanao Command...
Deletion by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) of one’s name in its blacklist is easy if you fork over from P1 million to P5 million. This information surfaced during a public hearing by the Senate public order and dangerous drugs committee where the name of an alien, particularly Chinese, could be...
CAMP. GEN. MIGUEL MALVAR, Batangas City – Police apprehended 43 wanted persons and seized almost ₱612,000 worth of illegal drugs in a week-long anti-crime operation in Batangas. Col. Pedro D. Soliba, Batangas police director, said 102 drug suspects were arrested in 90 operations from...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – The province of Apayao and 14 municipalities were named the most peaceful places in the Cordillera during the Police Regional Office-Cordillera Command Conference here on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar, regional police director, who presided over the...
CEBU CITY – Gov. Aris Aumentado backed programs that the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) will implement in Bohol. GOV. Aris Aumentado (right) welcomes Brig. Gen. Jerry Bearis, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas, at the Bohol Provincial Capitol in Tagbilaran City on...
POLICE secure the Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City in 2020. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – A week-long gun ban for the Dinagyang Festival here this year was implemented starting on Friday, Jan. 13. Brig. Gen. Leo Francisco, Police Regional Office 6 (Western Visayas) director, appealed for a peaceful...
MALUNGON, Sarangani – Authorities have stepped up security operations in hinterland barangays after a militiaman was killed while two others were wounded in an attack by bandits in the tri-boundary of Sarangani, South Cotabato, and Davao del Sur in Barangay Datal Batong here on New Year’s Eve....
ILOILO CITY – The New Year celebration in Western Visayas region was generally peaceful, police said. TOURISTS watch the fireworks display ushering in the New Year at the beach front of world-famous Boracay Island. (Malay-Boracay Tourism Office) "The peaceful celebration is attributed to the...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said Friday, Dec. 30, that it has meted penalties to 2,635 erring policemen in 2022 as its leadership vowed to continue its internal cleansing program "with greater focus" to purge the organization of undesirable personnel and sustain the notable decrease in the...
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...
