From the Sun Star-Bacolod (Feb 25): Capa: Negros Island police force ready for offensives
CHIEF Superintendent Conrado Capa, director of Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR), Wednesday downplayed the threats of the New People’s Army (NPA) that they will launch tactical offensives in the coming days.
He said the entire Negros Island Region police force are ready for any eventuality, pointing out that the attacks are usual for the NPA as their March 29 founding anniversary nears.
Capa called on the rebels to stop the bloodshed as the deaths of the two police officers in Candoni, Negros Occidental were already enough.
“It should stop there,” he said.
He directed his men – the public safety forces and all the station personnel – to fortify their forces.
Capa doesn’t believe that the rebel forces are gaining grounds, saying, “I don’t think so.”
Spokesperson Andrea Guerrero of the Armando Sumayang Jr. Command of the NPA-Southwest Negros Island Front said the other day that they will “continue to launch their tactical offensives to slow down and stop the reactionary ruling system of comprador-landlords until they reach the strategic stalemate at the soonest possible time.”
On February 18, six personnel of Candoni Municipal Police Station were ambushed by NPA rebels near the Panaculan Creek Bridge in Barangay Caningay.
Killed were Police Officer 3 Joeharry Peralta, 38, and PO1 Henry Pacheco, 30, while wounded were PO2 Jay Arroyo, 44, and PO1 Modesto Bina, 36, and a civilian identified as Rey Duales.
Senior Police Office 4 Boyd Mate, 43, and PO1 Charlemagne Caballero, 40, were unharmed.
The NPA admitted on Monday that they perpetrated the ambush last week, claiming that the town policemen were allegedly involved in illegal drug and illegal gambling operations.
Capa refuted the allegations of the rebels.
“Their claims are only justifications. The illegal drug operations in Candoni are not even intense,” he said.
Peralta and Pacheco will be laid to rest in their hometowns of Kabankalan City and Candoni, respectively, this Sunday.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2016/02/25/capa-negros-island-police-force-ready-offensives-459202
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