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KIDAPAWAN CITY – At least 45 public utility vehicles (PUVs) plying the Cotabato-Davao highway without franchises were impounded by traffic enforcers, police officers, and some elements of the Philippine Army in a random inspection on Wednesday. Of the vehicles, 31 were passenger vans and 14 were tricycles. They are considered, colorum, according toGinalinda Genotice, district head of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Kidapawan City.

COTABATO CITY – Police arrested here six persons including a suspected drug den
operator and sibling of a police officer during simultaneous law enforcement
operations in two villages Wednesday morning.

Armed with 16
search warrants issued by the local courts, police operatives, backed by the
Army’s Special Forces and led by Senior Inspector Tirso Pascual, police station
4 chief and Chief Inspector Efren Salazar, police station 2 head, raided the
house of Ali Sanday in Barangay Rosary Heights 8.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Three persons were injured, one of them in critical condition, when their vehicle plunged into an open canal after its brakes exploded along the highway in President Roxas, North Cotabato on Tuesday afternooon.Chief Inspector Andres Sumugat, chief of the President Roxas municipal police, identified the victims as Marcel Ortega Suncad, 36, of Kidapawan City Mary Jane Casol Lebita, 37 and Cornelio Lambos, 42.Of the three, Lebita had to be rushed to a hospital in Davao City for further treatment.Sumugat said the green Toyota Hi-Ace van with license plate LDF-805 was headed to

GEN SANTOS CITY - Police Director General Oscar Abayalde on Monday night turned over police patrol vehicles and operational equipment to provincial and police offices in Region 12.In his first visit to PRO-12, Abayalde turned over the equipment and vehicles to Chief Supt. Marcelo Morales, PRO-12 regional director in ceremonies witnessed by police officers from provincial and city offices.The equipment include five units of light patrol personnel carriers (Toyota Hi-Lux 4x4),10 units of Global Positioning

KORONADAL CITY – A P100,000 reward money is being offered to anyone who gives
police authorities a tip that could lead to the identification and possible
arrest of those responsible in Sunday afternoon bombing here.

City Mayor
Peter Miguel, speaking over Church-run Radio DXOM-AM, said the reward money
will help the police fast track the identification and prosecution of those who
set off a homemade beside the Christ the King Cathedral that hurt two persons.

COTABATO CITY --- Nineteen of the 37 barangays here have unopposed candidates for barangay captains, something first in the contemporary history of this now five-decade city.Most of Cotabato City’s 37 barangays were once locked in intense rivalry among big families squabbling for leadership in their barangays, whose registered voters then were as fragmented, divided by alliances premised on kinship, or for fear of protagonist clans.Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzalez, information officer of the Police Regional Office-12, said Sunday their director, Chief Superintendent Marcelo Morales, was elat

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Complying the directive from Police Regional Office (PRO-12),
police authorities in (North) Cotabato conducted from April 23 to 29 the Oplan
Huli Week 2018, a weekly police law enforcement operations and anti-crime
activities in the province that led to the arrest of 139 persons.

COTABATO CITY --- Gunmen killed a member of the 5thSpecial Forces Battalion and wounded another in an ambush here Monday morning.The fatality, Cpl.

KORONADAL CITY – Police authorities blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria-allied Moro armed group in the bombing near a Catholic Church here Sunday
that left two persons injured.

Chief Supt.
Marcelo Morales, police director for the SOCCSKSARGEN region, told a news
conference that the suspects also used a woman to plant another improvised bomb
in front of a convenience store, about three blocks away from the St. Anthony
Parish Cathedral where the first IED went off.

Cotabato Light and Power Companywill be available to serve its customers on May 1, 2018, Tuesday, declared asregular non-working holiday,in celebration of the Labor day. Cotabato Light service centers at Sinsuat Avenue, Cotabato City will be open from 8and00 AM to 4and00 PM with no noon break. Meanwhile, forpayment options, customer can proceed to Cotabato Light's different TPA agents - ECPAY, Cebuana, CIS Bayad Center, Mlhuillier and SAVEMORE (CityMall). For light troubles and immediate assistance, please call our CLPC Customer Service Hotline @ 520-2572.