DEACTIVATED. War materials used by a private armed group (PAG) operating in Maguindanao are turned over (inset) to authorities on Tuesday (Nov. 30, 2021). Six PAG members, allegedly serving a former assemblyman in Maguindanao, voluntarily yielded to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police to live peacefully with their families once more. (Photo by PRO-BARMM) CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao - Police here have welcomed the surrender of six armed men who belonged to a private armed group (PAG) of a local politician in Maguindanao, a top regional police official said Wednesday. In a statement, Brig. Gen. Eden T. Ugale, director for the Police Regional Office - Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-BARMM), said the PAG surrenderers were followers of former Maguindanao Assemblyman Sidik Ameril who has two more of such groups that the police are hunting down in the province. "The surrendering PAG of Ameril on Tuesday afternoon has been operating in Baranga
Brig. Gen. Eden T. Ugale, director of the Police Regional Office -Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. (File photo courtesy of PRO-BARMM) CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao - Stricter checkpoints will be set up across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following the death of Dawlah Islamiya leader Salahuddin Hassan in this province last week. Brig. Gen. Eden T. Ugale, BARMM police director, said Monday all police units in the region have been placed on heightened alert for possible retaliatory attacks from followers of the slain DI leader. "We vow to remain relentless against the terrorist groups to sustain the peace and development that we have attained in the BARMM," Ugale said in a statement. Ugale said they believe that Hassan still has active followers hiding in Maguindanao who are capable of carrying out retaliatory attacks to avenge his death. He ordered all police provincial offices, municipal, and city police stations as well as provin
PRO-BARMM Director Brig. Gen. Eden T Ugale (File photo courtesy of PRO-BARMM) PARANG, Maguindanao - All police units across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao have been ordered to intensify their drive against loose firearms, Brig. Gen. Eden T. Ugale, director for the Police Regional Office (PRO)-BARMM said Monday. "This is one step to help ensure loose firearms are not used during the 2022 elections," Ugale said in a statement released at Camp S.K. Pendatun, the headquarters of the PRO-BARMM here following the arrest of a couple and the recovery of a cache of high-powered guns. On Saturday, police officers arrested in this town a member of the local Civilian Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) and his wife for selling firearms. The arrest of CAFGU member Akay Awa, 50, and his wife Arbaya, 44, in Barangay Manion here came two days after police and Marine authorities in Malabang, Lanao del Sur seized unlicensed assorted firearms and explosives from private a