ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Zamboanga City Peace and Order Council chaired by Mayor John Dalipe approved a resolution on Saturday, Feb. 8, addressed to the Armed Forces of the Philippines requesting them to join the Zamboanga City Police Office in maintaining security, law, and order here....
BAGUIO CITY – The Baguio City Police Office reported that the grand opening parade of the Panagbenga Festival 2025 here on Saturday, Feb. 1, was generally peaceful and recorded zero theft incidents for the first time. TIGHT security contributed to the peaceful Panagbenga grand opening parade on...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Seventy-one wanted persons were nabbed by the police in the Cordillera region from Jan. 12 to 19. The Baguio City Police Office caught 24, followed by the Benguet Police Provincial Office with 20, Ifugao and Kalinga PPOs with seven each, Apayao PPO with six, Mountain...
DAVAO CITY – Months after this city was filled with tension over the search for Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, Davao City was ranked the third safest in Southeast Asia in the 2024 Numbeo Safety Index with a safety index of 72.5. A ELECTION checkpoint in Davao City implemented by the local police. (DCPO...
TACLOBAN CITY – More than 10,000 personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, and Philippine Coast Guard will be deployed across Eastern Visayas to secure the 2025 elections. They will work together with the Commission on Elections-Regional Office 8. Security...
ILOILO CITY – The strengthening of peace and order is bringing positive changes to a once notorious barangay in this city. BARANGAY Captain James Conlu of Barrio Obrero in Iloilo City at the closed circuit-television camera monitoring room. (Tara Yap) “When there is peace and...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Samar Police Provincial Office has deployed over 300 personnel to ensure safe and credible elections this May in the first district of Samar. Police Col. Antonietto Eric Mendoza, Samar police chief, led a send-off ceremony for the Regional Special Operations Task Group-Leyte...
BUTUAN CITY – Authorities reactivated on Wednesday the Regional Joint Security and Control Center in Northern Mindanao for the May elections. The revival of the RJSCC aims to ensure that the elections are conducted in a free, secure, orderly, honest and credible manner, Police Regional Office-10...
BUTUAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-13 said on Thursday that the New Year’s celebration in the Caraga region was generally peaceful. No major untoward incidents were recorded. “Our proactive security measures with the unwavering support of Caraganons had ensured that the New Year...
ILOILO CITY – Police recorded fewer crimes in the Western Visayas region during Christmas and New Year. FIREWORKS illuminate world famous Boracay Island on New Year’s Eve. (Summertide.PH) The Police Regional Office-6 said they logged 907 criminal incidents from Dec. 16 to Jan. 1 in Aklan,...
CAMP MARCELO A. ADDURU, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Police said the nine-day Misa de Gallo throughout Region 2 or the Cagayan Valley region from Dec. 16 to 24 was generally peaceful. POLICE secure a church where a Misa del Gallo or dawn Mass is being celebrated in Cagayan Valley. (PRO-2 FB) Police...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 said that Christmas in the Caraga region was generally peaceful. “Thank God that no untoward incident happened,” PRO 13-Regional Public Information Office chief Police Major Jennifer S. Ometer said. “This...