GUN BAN. Pangasinan Provincial Police Office information officer, Maj. Katelyn May Awingan says 49 election gun ban violators were arrested across the province from January 9 to April 12, 2022. Awingan spoke during the "Tongtongan ed PIA" forum on April 13 hosted by the Philippine Information Agency-Pangasinan. (Screenshot from PIA Pangasinan's live stream) MALASIQUI, Pangasinan - The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) has arrested 49 election gun ban violators across the province from January 9 to April 12. During the "Tongtongan ed PIA" forum hosted by the Philippine Information Agency Pangasinan on Wednesday, PPPO information officer, Maj. Katelyn May Awingan said the violators were nabbed in "Oplan Sita" operations, checkpoints, and buy-busts. Oplan Sita is a random checkpoint conducted by police personnel upon receiving information from concerned citizens, or through intelligence information. Confiscated from the suspects were 26 small fir
POLL PREPARATIONS. Urdaneta City, Pangasinan election officer lawyer Nathaniel Siaden during the virtual forum of the Philippine Information Agency Pangasinan on Thursday (Jan. 27, 2022). Siaden discussed the preparations adopted by the Commission on Elections in Pangasinan for the upcoming polls. (Screenshot from PIA Pangasinan's livestream) MALASIQUI, Pangasinan - Some 44 out of 48 election officers in Pangasinan have been transferred to other areas ahead of the country's national and local elections. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Urdaneta City election officer lawyer Nathaniel Siaden said the transfer prevents or avoids the familiarity of the officers with the incumbent officials. "To remove any doubt on possible close affiliation among the officers and the officials," he said in a virtual forum organized by the Philippine Information Agency Pangasinan on Thursday. Siaden said the election officers of Dagupan City, Villasis, Rosales, and Manaoag towns were not