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The number of police deployment ballooned to more or less a third of the 220,000 personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) as cities and municipalities in the Visayas and Mindanao also implemented their own community quarantine measures and as health and security experts saw the need to make the presence of the police felt on every streets to compel the people to behave towards protecting themselves at least via wearing of face masks and observing physical distancing.
The Joint Task Force COVID Shield, then headed by Police Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, even went to the extent of deploying elite police commandos and soldiers on board armed personnel carriers to force hard-headed people not to go out – an effective formula which health experts acknowledged to be contributing factor in the reduction of COVID cases which was later adopted in Cebu City when an upsurge of infection was monitored in the middle of this year.