Peace and Order

KORONADAL CITY – South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat Police Stations are preparing cases against 32 persons who were caught violating the implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) protocols in the whole region.

GEN. SANTOS CITY - Police Regional Office 12 – Crime rate in SOCCSKARGEN deflated Over 48.76% in just 15-days due to Enhance Community Quarantine and continues Law Enforcement Operation.

As of March 15 to present date crimes involving focus crimes decreases over 60% especially on heinous crimes (murder, homicide, robbery, theft, physical injury, MC motornapping, MV motornapping and rape) compared to 2019 crime statistics.

MANILA - Despite the Covid 19 threat, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has ordered an intensified manhunt for 76 Maguindanao massacre suspects who remain at large.

Acting on the directive of Chief PNP P/GEN ARCHIE FRANCISCO GAMBOA, the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM) of the PNP has issued a Memorandum dated March 13, 2020 to all units "on the Tracking and Accounting of Wanted Persons Involved in the Maguindanao Massacre." (Attached, together with 63 photos of the 76 accused still at-large).

COTABATO CITY ---- Another state witness in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre survived an ambush in Shariff Aguak town in Maguindanao Tuesday.

The incident came just three months after the vice mayor of the same municipality was seriously wounded in a seemingly identical attack.

Muhammad Sangki and four companions were together in a van that gunmen shot with assault rifles while its driver was maneuvering through a stretch of a thoroughfare in Shariff Aguak.

COTABATO CITY --- A dozen more improvised explosive devices and firearms were found by soldiers in hinterland enclaves of the Dawlah Islamiya that soldiers took over following three days of internecine clashes.

Two soldiers, Cpl. Albert Serquina and Sgt. Irvin Alberastine of the 40^th and 57th Battalions, respectively, and four Dawlah Islamiya bandits, one of them a cleric, perished in the spate of clashes in Tuayan area at the border of Ampatuan and Datu Hoffer towns in Maguindanao.

COTABATO CITY --- North Cotabato province now has a peace and order and public safety plan for 2020 to 2021, a requisite for intelligence fund releases.

The POPSP 2020-2021 of the province is focused on multi-sector cooperation to sustain the security efforts of the police and military, according to North Cotabato Gov. Nancy Catamco.

COTABATO CITY  – Elements of the Army’s 40^th Infantry Battalion and anti-narcotics operatives arrested on Monday during law enforcement operations in Maguindanao.

Lieutenant Colonel Rogelio Gabi, commander of the 40^th IB, said soldiers and members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Region (PDEA-BAR) conducted joint law enforcement operation against Podzak Akmad Mopak, a known drug peddler in Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao.

KORONADAL CITY- Nagpapagaling na sa pagamutan ang isang senior citizen matapos na napagtripan ng mga menor de edad, o mas kilalal na "Sukarap" sa Barangay Zone 4, nitong lungsod.

Nagmagandang loob pa ang senior citizen sa pag bukas ng gate sa hindi bababa sa 10 mga menor de edad.

Nagtamo ang senior citizen ng mga sugat sa katawan dahil sa bugbug at sugat sa ulo dahil sa hampas ng bote.

Sinabi naman ni Barangay Kagawad Maricel Angkay na hindi mga residente ng Barangay Zone 4 ang mga menor de edad. Nagiging tambayan naman ng mga ito ang Public Cemetery.

MAGUINDANAO --- Six drug dealers pledged to reform for good over the Qur’an Monday, three days after authorities shot dead two heavily-armed bandits distributing shabu in a nearby town.

The six men surrendered through the efforts of the multi-sector municipal peace and order council in Rajah Buayan town in the second district of Maguindanao.

MAGUINDANAO --- A cohort of the two drug traffickers killed by government agents last week in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao fell in an entrapment operation in a nearby town Monday.

Jamerushien Espadera was arrested after selling P34,000 worth of shabu to a non-uniformed agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the town center of Buluan, Maguindanao.