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GEN. SANTOS CITY - Joint operatives from Regional Police
Drug Enforcement Unit 12 (RPDEU 12) and Police Station 3 of General Santos City
Police Office (GSCPO) seized almost P36,000 worth of shabu and arrested two suspects in illegal-drug buy bust operation on Tuesday.The operation was conducted along Nursery road corner Yanson Village in Barangay Lagao, General
Santos City.

SAUDI
AMPATUAN, Maguindanao – Police and military authorities here have
launched manhunt against two gunmen who shot dead a town councilor Wednesday
morning.

Capt. Arvin
John Encinas, spokesperson of 6th Infantry Division, said elements
of the 57th Infantry Battalion have been providing manpower and
resources to the Datu Saudi Ampatuan Municipal Police Office in hunting down
the killers of Town Councilor Sahabudin Namli, 42 of Datu Saudi Ampatuan and
resident of Barangay Madia.

GEN. SANTOS CITY - Four uniformed
personnel and two on-Uniformed personnel assigned with the Regional
Comptrollership Division of Police Regional Office 12 were awarded with Medalya
Ng Papuri (PNP Commendation Medal) during Monday morning program at the PRO-12
regional office.

Following the PRO12 traditional
flag raising ceremony, Senior Supt. Johnson C. Almazan, deputy regional director
for operation, assisted by Senior Supt. Manuel M. Lukban Jr., regional chief directorial
staff presented the medals to the awardees.

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.