Bracing for the worsening drug menace and feared spill-over
of abduction spree in Mindanao, Philippine Army beefed up Bohol
troops with additional 100 soldiers from the 302nd Infantry Brigade under Col.
Allan Martin.
The additional soldiers arrived on Thursday last week
onboard the Philippine Navy vessel and were met by Col. Martin, Lt. Col. Dodgie
Belloga---commander of the 47th Infantry Battalion, SEEM (Social, Economic and
Environment Management) Cluster Coordinator Liza Quirog.
According to Belloga, the Reconnaissance Company formed the
joint task force in Negros Oriental which Col. Martin plans to replicate in Bohol .
The joint task force will assist the Bohol Police Provincial
Office in the campaign against illegal drugs and prevent any plots of abduction
of foreign tourists like what happened in Mindanao .
On the other hand, the BPPO remained on alert even after the
red alert status for the All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day had already been
lifted.
PSupt. Superintendent Nicomedes Olaivar Jr., public
information officer of the BPPO, said the different police units in the towns
and the city will continue implementing tight security measures in the light of
expected increase of tourist influx for the Christmas season.
Olaivar, who also heads the Provincial Public Safety
Company-Special Weapons and Tactics (PPSC-SWAT) at Camp Dagohoy
Part of the accomplishments of the One Time-Big Time
campaign against criminality was the implementation of 26 search warrants,
arrest of 53 personalities, confiscation of two high-powered firearms and
almost P1-million worth of shabu in 50 operations against illegal drugs in just
two days.
Police Provincial Director Dennis Agustin earlier reported
before the Provincial Peace and Order Council that PNP Chief Ricardo Marquez
instructed police directors to cascade Oplan Lambat as “a deliberate,
programmatic and sustainable approach aimed at regularly auditing crime
incident reports at the police station level and use the data thus generated to
identify ‘crime hot spots’ and crime patterns’ where and when intensified
police interventions are necessary”.
Agustin said Marquez had explained to them that “these
interventions include strategically placed checkpoints, foot and mobile
patrols, focused and intel-driven operations against most wanted persons and
member of criminal gangs”.
It had been proven effective in the National Capital Region,
Region 3 and Region 4A, Agustin said.
Agustin explained that from the word “lambat” or net, the
operation is “concerned with prevention and more specifically pertains to
police presence in the community”.
“It is a proactive policing that considers an area-wide
dragnet, focused patrols, and checkpoint operations with targeted actions that
covers, but not limited to Oplan Katok, Oplan Bakal/Sita, intensified serving
of warrants, and implementation of situation-driven Information Operations (IO)
plan,” according to Agustin.
In the optional use of resources, the PNP will have
“deliberate and rapid matching of deployment with identified crime prone areas;
utilization of Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB) and Provincial Public
Safety Company (PPSC) for Law Enforcement Operations (One-time big-time);
Selective adoption of Oplan “HUGOT” as a best practice”.
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