TWO platoons consisting of 120 police officers from the Regional Mobile Force Battalion and 80 police officers from the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) will be deployed in different areas in Cebu City where protesters are expected to gather during the final State of the Nation Address (Sona) of President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July […]
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13 cops, 14 detainees test positive for coronavirus in Samboan
A TOTAL of 13 police personnel and 14 detainees of the local police station in the southern town of Samboan, Cebu were found to be positive of Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). They were found positive a day after the Municipal Government implemented a hard lockdown on seven barangays after […]
PNP chief orders ‘thorough’ probe on broadcaster’s killing
PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) Chief Guillermo Eleazar on Friday, July 23, 2021, ordered local police in Cebu to conduct a thorough investigation into the killing of radio blocktimer Reynante Cortes in Cebu City. Eleazar assured that the police will look into all angles, including threats that Cortes may have received. In Cebu City, the Criminal […]
CCPO decides to conduct daily ‘Oplan Bulabog’ operations
THE Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) has decided to conduct its Oplan Bulabog operations every day starting July 19, 2021, to apprehend violators of curfew and health protocols such as non-wearing of mask in public spaces and non-observance of social distancing. The CCPO leadership decided to do this because the city is experiencing an increase […]
Pusher who hurt cop in buy-bust surrenders
AFTER shooting and injuring a police officer who attempted to arrest him, a suspected drug pusher surrendered to authorities in Talisay City on Friday night, July 16, 2021. Efren Espina, who was identified as a high-value drug target, went to the Talisay City Police Station in Barangay Poblacion at 10 p.m. He was accompanied by […]
Editorial: Body-worn cameras
The country’s law enforcement finally embraces the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) after years of public clamor in the wake of alleged human rights violations in the government’s intensified war against illegal drugs. To recall, not long after President Rodrigo Duterte’s impassioned term-starter pronouncements to curb illegal drugs in the country, the body count has […]
Editorial: Model officer, best practices
Last week, the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) in Talisay City invited over the city’s police chief P/Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare to enlighten the body on the progress of Oplan Limpyo Talisay, a big part of which is now seeing full fruition in Barangay Tanke, erstwhile one of the worst drug hives in all […]
PNP chief praises ‘clean’ state of Mandaue City Police Station 1
WHAT a difference a few weeks and the relief of 30 personnel of the Mandaue City Police Station 1 for failing to comply with the intensified cleanliness policy (ICP) of Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar make. On Sunday, July 11, 2021, Eleazar was in Cebu to inspect the police station and marveled […]
PDEG tags Bilibid ‘drug lord’ as source of 4.5 kilos of ‘shabu’
THE police said the 4.5 kilos of “shabu” worth P30.6 million seized during a drug bust in Cebu City that resulted in the deaths of two suspected pushers came from a “drug lord” who is currently an inmate of the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City. The inmate supported the candidacy of a politician in […]
150 PRO 7 personnel get the jab
A TOTAL of 150 doses of the 300 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that the Department of Health (DOH) 7 allocated for the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 were administered to police personnel on Thursday, July 8, 2021. The PRO 7 hopes it will receive more vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) so the entire […]
Teacher, friend arrested for alerting drug pusher of police presence
A PUBLIC school teacher and another man were arrested by police in Barangay DAS, Toledo City after the teacher alerted a drug pusher that the police were conducting an operation against. James delos Reyes Camangyan Jr., 32, a public school teacher living in Sitio Looc 1, Barangay Bato, Toledo City, will be facing charges for […]
Editorial: Intensified cleanliness policy
AN ADMINISTRATION that conducted an internal cleansing program among police ranks by getting rid of scalawag cops means business. It was the only way it could gain credibility and garner support for its bloody campaign against criminality. It had to show the public that it would not tolerate members involved in any illegal activities. When […]
Police nab over 8,000 Cebu City curfew violators in 3 months
A TOTAL of 8,331 individuals were caught by the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) during its implementation of Oplan Bulabog, a police operation that goes after curfew violators, from April to June this year. The CCPO noted that the number of curfew violators this year is higher compared to last year when stricter quarantine protocols […]
‘Dirty’ state of Police Station 1 leads to relief of all personnel
ALL 30 personnel of the Mandaue City Police Station 1 have been relieved for failing to comply with the intensified cleanliness policy (ICP) of Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar. One of the ICP’s main thrusts is ensuring cleanliness in all PNP precincts, stations and offices. According to Police Regional Office 7 Director […]
Duterte orders national mourning for Aquino until July 3
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has declared a 10-day period of mourning for former President Benigno “Noynoy” S.C. Aquino III from June 24 to July 3, 2021. Proclamation 1169 mandates that the national flag be “flown at half-mast from sunrise to sunset on all government buildings and installations throughout the Philippines and abroad for a period of […]
Probe on murdered couple in San Fernando town continues
POLICE in Cebu province have yet to figure out who were responsible for the abduction and murder of the Sanchez couple in Brgy. Tananas, San Fernando town on Friday night, June 18, 2021. Gavino and Arlene Sanchez were found dead inside their car and with gunshot wounds on their bodies. According to Police Colonel Engelbert […]
Police: No foul play in detainee’s death
LOCAL police found no signs of foul play in the death of a 39-year-old woman who was detained at the old police stockades of the Labangon Police Station in Cebu City. Marie Ann Negro, 39, a resident of Beltran Subdivision in Barangay Quiot, Cebu City, was found by police hanging inside her cell using her […]
Cops arrest high-value drug suspect in Lapu-Lapu City
POLICE collared a high-value drug suspect in a buy-bust operation conducted by the City Intelligence Unit (CIU) of the Lapu-Lapu Police Office (LCPO) on Sunday, June 13, 2021. The operation, led by team CIU team leader, Police Lieutenant Noah Añana under the supervision of Police Major Joey Bicoy, took place near the Public Utility Jeepney […]
Editorial: Welcome developments
The Philippine National Police (PNP) began using body cameras in its operatioons on June 4, 2021. That took around four years since it began procurement in 2017, one of the takeaways from the public pressure following the killing of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos and 19-year old Karl Angelo Arnaiz in August 2017 in Caloocan City. […]
Editorial: Virtue signalling
Whether or not Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Guillermo Eleazar’s dressing down of Police Master Sgt. Hensie Zinampan in public was mere show, it may help to look at the context that charged the official’s frustration. It wasn’t also the first time that he did so on an erring cop—he did the same, and even […]