Published December 20, 2020, 4:14 PM
The Internal Affairs Service of the Philippine National Police (PNP-IAS) has started deploying its inspection teams in communist rebel-infected areas to ensure field units are prepared for possible attacks by the New People’s Army (NPA), which will mark its 52nd anniversary on Dec. 26.
IAS Inspector General Alfegar Triambulo said the priorities of the inspections are police stations and community precincts in areas where communist rebels are known to operate and with a history of NPA attacks.
He said the inspection teams are composed of IAS personnel whose job is to ensure that all the defense strategies and intelligence-gathering measures are properly done in order to prevent any attacks.