Published December 20, 2020, 4:14 PM
The Internal Affairs Service of the Philippine National Police (PNP-IAS) has started deploying its inspection teams in communist rebel-infected areas to ensure field units are prepared for possible attacks by the New People’s Army (NPA), which will mark its 52nd anniversary on Dec. 26.
IAS Inspector General Alfegar Triambulo said the priorities of the inspections are police stations and community precincts in areas where communist rebels are known to operate and with a history of NPA attacks.
He said the inspection teams are composed of IAS personnel whose job is to ensure that all the defense strategies and intelligence-gathering measures are properly done in order to prevent any attacks.
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The New People s Army rebels (File photo)
+ December 18, 2020 PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) Chief Debold Sinas reminded police commanders on Friday, December 18, to beef up alertness and vigilance against possible attack of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-New People’s Army (NPA) ahead of its 52nd founding anniversary on December 26, 2020.
“The CPP-NPA-NDF (National Democratic Front) is known to launch high-profile hostilities to drumbeat commemoration of significant dates in the underground movement over the past five decades,” Sinas said.
“The recent rash of hostile actions initiated by the CPP-NPA-NDF are all part of that long vicious cycle and 50-year tradition of violence of the local communist movement,” he added.
Published December 18, 2020, 2:13 PM
Police Gen. Debold Sinas, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, reminded all police field units Friday to remain alert and vigilant against possible increased hostilities by the New People’s Army (NPA) ahead of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP) 52nd founding anniversary on Dec. 26.
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Sinas said the communist groups are known to launch high-profile attacks to “drumbeat the commemoration of significant dates in the underground movement” over the past five decades.
“The recent rash of hostile actions initiated by the CPP-NPA-NDFP (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) is all part of that long vicious cycle and 50-year tradition of violence of the local communist movement,” he said.