Europe grapples with security after attacks

07/31/2016

Paris — You can’t put a guard in every church and patrol every beach. But after a wave of attacks in Western Europe, authorities are struggling to protect their people as best they can. The French Riviera…

More than words

Raymund Fernandez 07/26/2016

As it was, President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech turned out to be not so bad. For showing the human side of him, it might have been brilliant. That he affirmed: there will be no demolition (of squatters) without…

Police on alert after security threat report

07/08/2016

The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) has placed the region under high alert status following reports from Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte that the city received threats from the Islamic State (ISIS) group. Regional…

TIGHT SECURITY FOR ‘DU31’ PARTY

Carmel Loise Matus 06/24/2016

Even if there is still a week to go before he assumes the highest position in the country, President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is already getting the treatment of a sitting president, with the watchful eyes of over a…

Duterte finds being guarded by PSG ‘awkward’

Carmel Loise Matus 06/09/2016

President-elect Rodrigo Duterte admitted that there were many things he needed to getting use to as the President of the country, including being surrounded by the Presidential Security Group (PSG). Duterte, speaking before a group of Cebuano…

Safety and convenience in voting

Editorial 05/11/2016

The death of two women voters and fainting of 11 people due to the summer heat in Cebu City and some parts of Cebu province only emphasized the urgency not only of including commercial malls as polling…

PH, 2 other countries agree to boost maritime security after kidnappings

05/06/2016

The Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia agreed yesterday to run coordinated patrols to boost maritime security following the kidnappings at sea of Indonesians by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants. Foreign ministers and military chiefs of the three countries held…

Cebu City to deploy mobile CCTV cameras on election day

Julit C. Jainar 05/04/2016

ON ELECTION Day, May 9, the Cebu City government will have three closed- circuit television (CCTV) cameras mounted on a vehicle that will be going around every nook and cranny of the city to monitor the conduct…

Security ready for poll watch group, precincts

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 04/30/2016

Police assured a citizens’ election watch group of their security during the May 9 elections especially in identified election hotspots. Supt. Arnel Banzon of the Police Regional Office’s (PRO-7) operations and plans division said they will secure…

CPPO to seek military’s help

Apple Ta-as 04/13/2016

The Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) will ask the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Police Regional Office Central Visayas (PRO-7) to send personnel who can help monitor and secure the  more than 1,000 voting…

Security raised in ports, terminals for Holy Week

Apple Ta-as 03/23/2016

Police are monitoring terminals and ports in Central Visayas due to the expected large turnout of passengers heading to the provinces for the Holy Week break. Chief Supt. Manuel Gaerlan, regional director of the Police Regional Office…

780 policemen secure UP Cebu grounds for presidential debate

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/20/2016

At least 780 policemen were deployed in and around the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu campus to ensure no untoward incident would happen before, during and after the presidential debate, according to Senior Superintendent Armando Radoc,…

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