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COTABATO CITY -- Hundreds of police rookies were deployed Tuesday around Region 12 to study law-enforcement missions in culturally-pluralistic and ethno-linguistic communities.The region ---- covering the cities of Tacurong, Cotabato, Kidapawan, Marbel and General Santos, and the provinces of Sarangani, South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and North Cotabato --- is home to tri-people, which means mixed Muslim, Christian and indigenous non-Moro Lumad residents.Chief Supt.

MAGUINDANAO --- Soldiers seized on Tuesday 24 assault rifles from members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front moving around without prior coordination with local authorities.Reports reaching the Army’s 6thInfantry Division in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao indicated that the gunmen, led by Orly Gampong, were on a truck that Army personnel stopped at Barangay Mileb in Sultan sa Barongis, acting on tips from informants.The government and the MILF are bound by a July 1997 interim security pact binding both to coordinate any tactical movement by either side in potential conflict flashpoint are

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao - The military’s campaign against loose firearms has earned the
support of local officials, even local residents of Maguindanao, an Army
official said.

Major Gen.
Arnel dela Vega, commander of the 6th Infantry Division and Task
Force Central, said the intensified campaign continues and being intensified
with the local residents expressing support on it, publicly and voluntarily.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -– A farmer wanted for several frustrated homicide cases was apprehended by authorities in Magpet in North Cotabato province.

SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao – Five soldiers, including an Army lieutenant, were
hurt in a roadside bombing in Datu Unsay, Maguidanao Sunday morning, police
said.

Chief Supt.
Graciano Mijares, police regional director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao, quoting a report from Maguindanao PNP provincial office,said the explosion of suspected
improvised explosive device in Meta bridge, Barangay Meta, Datu Unsay,
Maguindanao occurred at 7:30 a.m. while the Army’s KM-150 truck was passing by.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – With the relentless campaign on loose firearms, the joint forces of Datu Piang Municipal Police Station and the troops of 2ndMechanized Infantry Battalion recovered low-powered firearm during the conduct of law enforcement support operation on Saturday, February 17, 2018 in Brgy Buayan, Datu Piang, Maguindanao.Recovered were one Ingram with magazine, two Bandoleers for M16 and two Bandoleers for Garand rifle which was hidden in the grassy area of the said place.Loose firearm was also recovered yesterday and the arrest of certain Alimundin Sangcopan in Brgy Labu-L

COTABATO CITY –- Police here killed a drug suspect who tried to lob a hand grenade during
a drug buy bust operation Friday night here.

Chief Inspector
Aldrin Gonzales, speaking for police in Region 12, said Mohammad Dipatuan Awal
tried to throw a hand grenade when police enforcers were to arrest him following
a drug buy bust operation.

Gonzales said
Awal pulled a fragmentation grenade after sensing he was dealing with a poseur buyer
during the 11:30 p.m. operation in Barangay Bagua 2, Cotabato City.

COTABATO CITY – A police officer assigned in Maguindanao and a woman were arrested
by Cotabato City police personnel while in a pot session inside a lodging house
here Thursday.

Suharto
Mamasalanao Gumnay, 33, a police officer assigned in Municipal police station
in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao and a woman identified only as Nadja of Barangay Rosary
Heights 6, Cotabato City were arrested inside Carta de Amor Inn along Yapsea
Street, Barangay Rosary Heights 10 at 11:30 p.m. Thursday.

KORONADAL CITY – A police officer in Sarangani province was in critical condition
after he was shot while responding to an alleged shooting incident in Malungon
town Friday morning.

Chief Inspector
Aldrin Gonzales, speaking for police in Region 12, said Police Officer 1 Jared
Bogador, intelligence operative of Malungon PNP, was shot by a certain Pedro
Donasco at about 9:30 a.m.

Gonzales said
Bogador was responding to a reported shooting incident in Barangay Datal Tampal
when the suspect opened fire on him.

COTABATO CITY -- Power outage will be experienced in some homes and establishments near Rojas Elementary School in Barangay Rosary Heights 12 on Saturday morning (FEb. 17), Cotabato Light announced today.Power ?interruption will start at 8 a.m.