I am now beginning to understand why it is really very hard for the government forces to fight the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Basilan and Jolo as can be gleaned from their failure to neutralize the…
CEBU CITY–A hotel staff in Cebu City sought police assistance after a group of more than 10 persons who spoke in a different language checked in past 8 a.m. on Monday. Operatives of the Special Weapons…
A total of 15 drug suspects were arrested in a series of raids done in two Danao City barangays on Friday afternoon. Danao City Poice Chief Insp. Gerard Ace Pelare said eight drug pushers and seven drug…
A suspected drug pusher was arrested while three minors were rescued during a buy-bust operation in District 4, Barangay Pupogan, Consolacion town, Cebu on Thursday evening. Chief Insp. Roderick Gonzales, Chief of Consolacion Police Station, said they…
Stay at home, or if you insist on traveling, don’t post your whereabouts online. Also verify every “advisory” and “alert” you read in social media. These were some of the tips given by Cebu City officials to…
A send-off ceremony for 140 policemen assigned to different areas in the province for Holy Week duties was held on Tuesday. Most of them will augment the police force in northern Cebu particularly Bantayan Island, dubbed…
CEBU City Councilor David Tumulak wants five policemen from the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) investigated after receiving complaints that they were involved in extortion, commonly known as “hulidap.” Tumulak, also the deputy mayor for peace and…
THE family and friends of four-year-old Emmanuel Martinez Jr. bid farewell to him as his remains were buried at the public cemetery in Barangay Calamba, Cebu City at 3:30 pm yesterday. The mourners wore a T-shirt…
ASIDE from cleaning their ranks from scalawags, the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) has mandated its policemen to discover the goodness in each of them and perform acts of kindness every day. Senior Supt. Eric Noble,…
Cops and soldiers killed or wounded in action are now guaranteed to receive up to half a million pesos in financial assistance from the government, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) announced on Friday. The…
THE Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) is looking into the possible involvement of some policemen in the ambush-slay of a village watchman in northern Cebu’s town of Consolacion last Tuesday. Based on the information they gathered, Senior…
Charges were filed yesterday against the three Romanians who were tagged in the series of unauthorized withdrawals from automated teller machines (ATM) of Metro Cebu branches of the Land Bank of the Philippines. Ionut Alexandru Mitrache,…
