SECURITY measures are already in place in Cebu City for the opening of classes on Monday. Assistance desks will be put up in school premises while police visibility will be increased around the city as part of the Oplan Balik Eskwela campaign of the Philippine National Police (PNP). “The campaign will be about public and […]

  At least 77 person were arrested in Cebu City in another “One Time, Big Time” where simultaneous police operations were conducted against illegal drugs and other crimes on Tuesday. Most, or 60  individuals, were caught for violating Republic Act 9165 of the Compehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. Superintendent Ryan Devaras, chief of the […]

Cebu City officials are scrambling for ways to implement the new law prohibiting small children from riding motorcycles and at the same time make sure that it does not become a problem for those who use motorcycles to bring their children to school. Councilor Joy Augustus Young, deputy mayor on education, suggested that law enforcement […]

BEFORE even thinking of extending financial help to Bohol for their peace and order problems, opposition councilor Joel Garganera, head of Cebu City’s Police Advisory Council (PAC), told Mayor Tomas Osmeña to “start within.” In a resolution approved by the Cebu City Council yesterday, Garganera said that PAC wants a status report on city hall’s […]

Though the Cebu provincial police was right in brushing aside allegations that the arrest of Lagtang Barangay Chairman Mark Ferdinand Bas was politically motivated, it was presumptuous of Senior Supt. Eric Noble, Cebu provincial police chief, to think that those who opposed Bas’ arrest were also involved in illegal drugs. “For me, if one is […]

At least seven private individuals in civilian clothes have restricted the media from going near the detention cell, and taking photographs and videos of David Lim Jr. at the Cebu City Police Office stockade on Wednesday afternoon. Upon learning about it at around 7 p.m., Senior Supt. Joel Doria, director of the CCPO, immediately went […]

As top gov’t exec arranges  surrender of road rage suspect, authorities vow to treat him like any other person who turns himself in A scion of a prominent Chinese-Filipino businessman should not expect special treatment even if his surrender is facilitated by Secretary Christopher “Bong” Go, the special assistant to President Rodrigo Duterte. David Lim […]

As the police and other law enforcement authorities recalibrated their offensive against illegal drugs, they find themselves facing a troubling aspect of the drug war — dealing with minors caught alongside the adult offenders. Over the weekend, two such minors, both male and both 16 years old suspected to be drug couriers, were arrested in […]

With their intensified campaign against criminality, the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) claimed that the detention cells of the different police stations in the city are now getting congested. This was because of the police operations that they conducted wherein they arrested not less than 50 individuals in every operation, according to City Intelligence Branch […]

Months before Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa yanked the police out of the war on drugs, there has been no death related to police anti-drug operations in Cebu City. Since late last year, no drug-related killing occurred during operations by the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), said Senior Supt. […]