ARREST PROCEDURE. A female anti-narcotics agent reads the content of a warrant of arrest against the suspect, Raquel Manibpel, during an anti-drug enforcement operation in Talitay, Maguindanao on Sunday (March 6, 2022). The suspect's husband, a town councilor of the same town, managed to elude arrest. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-BARMM) COTABATO CITY - Anti-narcotic operatives arrested on Sunday a former town employee but missed her husband, a town councilor, during an anti-drug operation in Maguindanao. Director Rogelito Daculla of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) identified the suspect as Raquel Tasil Manibpel, 31, former town employee of Talitay town who has standing warrants of arrest along with her husband, Talitay Councilor Suwaib Manibpel, for drug-related charges. The councilor eluded arrest when PDEA-Maguindanao operatives served the arrest warrants on him and his wife on March 6 in Barangay Lower Taviran
DAVAO CITY The Bangsamoro government’s Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG) graduated 61 personnel in the first water search and rescue (Wasar) training it conducted since the Covid-19 pandemic, raising the number of its emergency responders. The Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence (READi) conducted the training of participants…
The last Plebiscite Committee leaves the distribution center in Buluan, Maguindanao for Tamontaka in Cotabato City a little past 6 a.m. on Monday as the first day of the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law starts on Monday, January 21.
Today is #BangsamoroPlebiscite Day. Big day for everyone. Good luck to all. https://t.co/lBdPD90Ehb pic.twitter.com/0LQltCm1Ze
— COMELEC (@COMELEC) January 20, 2019
Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez said over the weekend that as high as 75 percent of the more than two million voters from Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), as well as the cities of Isabela in Basilan and Cotabato in Maguindanao are expected to go out and cast their votes.
A second plebiscite day is set for February 6 for areas in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte.
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
CHECKPOINT. Maguindanao police personnel conduct random checkpoint operations along the national highway as part of a crime prevention campaign as directed by Maguindanao police provincial director Col. Jibin Bongcayao. Joint military and police personnel manning a checkpoint at the border of Datu Anggal Midtimbang and Datu Odin Sinsuat towns flagged down a convoy of some 35 Moro Islamic Liberation Front members who passed through the area with high-powered firearms without proper coordination with state forces Monday (Nov. 1, 2021). (Photo courtesy of Maguindanao PPO) DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao - Some 35 heavily armed members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that had signed a peace deal with the government were disarmed by government forces here for traveling without coordination with state forces, police said Tuesday. The 1997 general agreement on the cessation of hostilities between the government and the MILF states that movements of armed personnel from the MILF ran