AFP to personnel on checkpoint duty: Follow operational procedures

From the Philippine News Agency (Sep 9): AFP to personnel on checkpoint duty: Follow operational procedures

Military personnel manning checkpoints are reminded to follow the operational procedures or face administrative sanctions.

Armed Forces of the Philippines public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo reminded troopers not to touch or open any vehicle or order any occupant to go outside.

Check points must also be well lighted and personnel manning it in full uniform.

Also, baggage can only be inspected if the owner or passenger gives permission, he added.

Failure to comply could result in the filing of administrative sanctions and other charges, Arevalo said.

"We would like to ensure that as we respond to the Commander-in-Chief's call for the AFP to help suppress lawless violence in Mindanao and prevent its spread in other areas of the country, the execution of our tasks will always be proper and with due regard to every citizen's entitlements under the bill of rights," Arevalo said.

A "State of National Emergency on Account of Lawless Violence in Mindanao" was declared by President Rodrigo Duterte in wake of the bombing attacks in Davao City which killed 14 and wounded more than 60 persons last Sept. 2.

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