MANILA - The Philippine National Police-Women and Children Protection Center (PNP-WCPC) arrested three suspected traffickers and rescued 23 victims, 22 of whom are minors, from trafficking in persons and online sexual exploitation in two successive operations on Tuesday. In a news release, the WCPC said the operations, the product of over six months of case buildup, were the result of international law enforcement collaboration between the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Philippine National Police - Women and Children Protection Center (PNP-WCPC) through the Transnational Criminal Investigation Task Force (TCITF). The first operation took place at around 1:45 p.m. in Taguig City, spearheaded by three WCPC offices the TCITF, Luzon Field Unit (LFU), and Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Division (AVAWCD). Two female suspects were arrested while 12 minors, some of whom are relatives of the suspects, were rescued by the operatives. TCITF officer-in-charge, Lt. Co