Report remains unverified; checkpoints intensified

Nestle Semilla 05/11/2018

ARMED GOONS CHECKPOINTS and roadblocks were put up in mountain barangays of Cebu City by the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) following unconfirmed reports that about a hundred suspicious-looking men were roaming around in Barangay Agsungot. “May…

Checkpoints in Cebu net 4 gun ban violators

Benjie B. Talisic 04/16/2018

“We are serious in implementing the election gun ban.” Chief Supt. Moises Mabanag, Police Regional Office in Central Visayas deputy regional director for administration, said this on Monday amid the arrest of four gun ban violators in…

5 arrested in separate Mandaue City police checkpoints

Norman V. Mendoza 03/16/2018

Five arrested persons are now detained after police authorities apprehended them due to possession of illegal drugs in Mandaue City on Thursday evening. Three men and a woman were caught in possession of illegal drugs by personnel…

CCPO: More random checkpoints

Benjie B. Talisic 02/20/2018

The Cebu City Police Office have already been conducting random checkpoints in the city amid orders from Chief Supt. Robert Quenery to focus on stopping incidents involving motor-riding criminals in the city. Quenery’s order came amid the…

More checkpoints, patrols amid shootings

Benjie Talisic 01/27/2018

MORE checkpoints and more police visibility in public places will be implemented by the Cebu City police officers to prevent any more crimes like the two shooting incidents in Cebu City in the past two days. Supt.…

Police assure no manual searches in Comelec checkpoints

Nestle L. Semilla 10/02/2017

GUN BAN IMPLEMENTATION AS provincewide checkpoints become imminent with the start of the implementation of the gun ban, in the absence of a final decision postponing the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections set on October 23, the…

Mandaue checkpoints illegal – Barcenas

Fe Marie D. Dumaboc, Morexette B. Erram 09/26/2017

AT least 284 persons were arrested in various police checkpoints in Mandaue City since January 2017 for alleged possession of illegal drugs or firearms, a data from the local police showed. But cases filed against the suspects…

On those checkpoints

Editorial 09/26/2017

If it weren’t for checkpoints, supporters of terrorist groups like Supt. Maria Nobleza, who was caught transporting medicines, clothing and food to Abu Sayyaf bandits in Bohol province early this year, would never have been caught. Then…

Tight security, more checkpoints

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 06/30/2017

  EXPECT heavy security and more checkpoints along the route of the delegates of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). This after Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7 ) fully deployed the 4,600 security personnel for…

US Embassy advises citizens of checkpoints in Metro Manila

Inquirer.net 05/28/2017

The United States Embassy in Manila on Sunday issued an advisory to its citizens, saying the Philippine government has placed the entire Philippine National Police on full alert throughout Metro Manila. The security message issued tells its…

The Abu Sayyaf Link

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Benjie Talisic, Leo Udtohan, Nestle L. Semilla 04/24/2017

Tagbilaran City, Bohol — A high-ranking policewoman, accused of “sleeping with the enemy” for her alleged romance with a young terrorist, may yet have another police officer working with her to rescue remaining members of the Abu…

Biz leaders say sector doing OK, but some local folks wary

Dominic D. Yasay 09/11/2016

“It’s business as usual for Cebu City.” Melanie Ng, Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) president, said this when asked about impact of the the heightened security on the businesses in the city. “Everything is very…

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