Bato to order cop units out of attack-prone areas
POLICE Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said he will soon order for the immediate pull-out of police detachments in far-flung areas that are at high risk of attacks by Communist rebels.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) chief issued the remark after President Rodrigo Duterte made a verbal instruction to the Armed Forces of the Philippine to conduct mobile checkpoints instead of having traditional detachments along the highways.
“Those detachments, particularly in the far-flung areas that are in danger of attack, will be dismantled so they will not be targeted by the NPA (New People’s Army), dela Rosa said in a media interview on Saturday, the third day of the 1st PNP Chief Swat Challenge held at the Davao Firing Range in Barangay Ma-a.
“We will detail back the personnel to their respective camps,” dela Rosa said. “They will go back to their camps after their operation.”
The PNP chief said that having a fixed detachment only makes the police a live human target of the NPA’s snipers.
Dela Rosa agreed that police can put machine guns in areas that are really prone to NPA attacks.
In separate interview, Chief Supt. Manuel Gaerlan, the director of the Police Regional Office (PRO) XI, said that they are willing to comply with the order once they receive it.
But Gaerlan said the Davao region doesn’t have fixed police detachments anymore.
“Except, of course, our police stations and few sub- stations,” Gaerlan said.
He said detachments or patrol bases in the region are usually manned by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Gaerlan said PNP conducts regular checkpoints but not on the same place every day.
President Duterte, in his speech during the opening ceremony of PNP Swat Challenge on Thursday, said NPA snipers could make army or police officers in detachment as their targets.
“Detachment soldier just fell down dead,” Duterte said in vernacular. “NPA can now attack soldiers, cops and Cafgu in the detachments at a distance.”
NPAs don’t need to attack the detachments in close range, Duterte said. “They have acquired the skill of sniping.”
POLICE Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said he will soon order for the immediate pull-out of police detachments in far-flung areas that are at high risk of attacks by Communist rebels.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) chief issued the remark after President Rodrigo Duterte made a verbal instruction to the Armed Forces of the Philippine to conduct mobile checkpoints instead of having traditional detachments along the highways.
“Those detachments, particularly in the far-flung areas that are in danger of attack, will be dismantled so they will not be targeted by the NPA (New People’s Army), dela Rosa said in a media interview on Saturday, the third day of the 1st PNP Chief Swat Challenge held at the Davao Firing Range in Barangay Ma-a.
“We will detail back the personnel to their respective camps,” dela Rosa said. “They will go back to their camps after their operation.”
The PNP chief said that having a fixed detachment only makes the police a live human target of the NPA’s snipers.
Dela Rosa agreed that police can put machine guns in areas that are really prone to NPA attacks.
In separate interview, Chief Supt. Manuel Gaerlan, the director of the Police Regional Office (PRO) XI, said that they are willing to comply with the order once they receive it.
But Gaerlan said the Davao region doesn’t have fixed police detachments anymore.
“Except, of course, our police stations and few sub- stations,” Gaerlan said.
He said detachments or patrol bases in the region are usually manned by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Gaerlan said PNP conducts regular checkpoints but not on the same place every day.
President Duterte, in his speech during the opening ceremony of PNP Swat Challenge on Thursday, said NPA snipers could make army or police officers in detachment as their targets.
“Detachment soldier just fell down dead,” Duterte said in vernacular. “NPA can now attack soldiers, cops and Cafgu in the detachments at a distance.”
NPAs don’t need to attack the detachments in close range, Duterte said. “They have acquired the skill of sniping.”
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