CRIME WATCH. Personnel of Bago City Police Station and force multipliers in Bago City, Negros Occidental patrol the city's public cemetery during the All Saints' Day on Nov. 1, 2021. Crimes dropped by 43.32 percent in Western Visayas from October 29 to November, data released by the Police Regional Office-6 on Wednesday (Nov. 3, 2021) showed.(Photo courtesy of Bago City Information Office) BACOLOD CITY - Crimes during the long "Undas" weekend dropped by 43.32 percent in Western Visayas, data released by the Police Regional Office-6 (PRO-6) on Wednesday showed. From October 29 to November 2, the police recorded only 174 crimes, which is 133 less compared to 307 reported during the same period last year. These include both index crimes or those against persons and property, and non-index crimes, which are violations of special laws. Based on the data, the eight focus crimes also dropped by 53.19 percent to only 22, from the previous year's 47. Focus crimes include m
ENCOUNTER SITE. Policemen cordon off the area where two anti-personnel mines were detonated by insurgents in an encounter in Barangay Jolason, Tubungan, Iloilo on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 24, 2021). The incident wounded two members of the 1st Iloilo Provincial Mobile Force Command. (Photo courtesy of Tubungan MPS) ILOILO CITY - Strings of criminal cases will be filed against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) for detonating two anti-personnel mines (APM) that injured two government troops during an encounter that lasted about seven minutes in Barangay Jolason, Tubungan, Iloilo on Oct. 24. Two members of the 1st Iloilo Provincial Mobile Force Command (IPMFC) were injured in the clash against elements of the NPA's Southern Front Committee, Komiteng Rehiyon Panay. Lt. Alwin Salmon, officer-in-charge of the Tubungan Municipal Police Station, identified the wounded as Pat. Jessie Castamado, who was already discharged from the hospital, and Corporal Gene
ENCOUNTER SITE. Policemen cordon off the area where two anti-personnel mines were detonated by insurgents in an encounter in Barangay Jolason, Tubungan, Iloilo on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 24, 2021). The incident wounded two members of the 1st Iloilo Provincial Mobile Force Command. (Photo courtesy of Tubungan MPS) ILOILO CITY - Strings of criminal cases will be filed against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) that detonated two anti-personnel mines (APM) during an encounter that lasted about seven minutes in Barangay Jolason, Tubungan, Iloilo on Sunday. Two members of the 1st Iloilo Provincial Mobile Force Command (IPMFC) were injured in the clash against elements of the NPA's Southern Front Committee, Komiteng Rehiyon Panay. Lt. Alwin Salmon, officer-in-charge of the Tubungan Municipal Police Station, identified the wounded as Pat. Jessie Castamado, who was already discharged from the hospital, and Corporal Genel Simpas, who is confined in a hospi