ILOILO CITY, May 29 (PIA) – The death of a high-ranking Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) member and his aide will gravely affect the operation of the CPP-NPA in Panay, said Western Visayas top police official.Police Regional Office 6 director Brigadier.
PNP trains barangay officials as first crime scene responders
Philippine Information Agency
25 May 2021, 22:38 GMT+10
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, May 25 (PIA) The Philippine National Police - Regional Crime Laboratory Office (PRCLO) is conducting orientations and trainings for barangay officials to be first responders at crime scenes.
Police Lieutenant Elvis Bacud, Police Strategy Management Unit Officer, said that they go to barangays to conduct seminars to capacitate and equip local officials on their functions and responsibilities as initial crime scene responders.
Crime Laboratory officials from the PNP-2 conduct a drug testing for applicants for a License to Own and Posesses Firearms. (PNP-SOCO)
Published May 25, 2021, 1:08 PM
CEBU CITY – Five suspected members of the New People’s Army were killed while one army soldier was wounded in a gunfight that broke out in a mountain barangay in Bilar town in Bohol Province.
Lt. Elma Grace Remonde, spokesperson of the Philippine Army 47th Infantry Battalion (IB) in Bohol, said the gunfight broke out at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 25 in Barangay Cabacnitan.
Apart from the five fatalities on the NPA side, the 47th IB was also able to seize assorted firearms.
Remonde revealed that last Monday, the 47th IB received a report from some residents in the barangay about the presence of armed persons suspected to be members of the NPA.
Published April 30, 2021, 4:14 PM
CEBU CITY – The country’s biggest city police station located in Barangay Poblacion, Danao City, was inaugurated Friday.
Police Gen. Debold Sinas, chief of the Philippine National Police, led the inauguration of the four-story police station.
Danao Mayor Ramon “Nito” Durano III, Cebu Vice Gov. Hilario Davide III, Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) director Police Col. Engelbert Soriano, and Danao police chief Lt. Col. Maria Theresa Macatangay also graced the turnover and inauguration of the building.
The new building was constructed after the old police station in the city was razed by fire in January 2015.
The PNP initially planned to build a two-story police office but Durano offered to build a four-story building with the city government shouldering the cost of the construction.