From the Philippine News Agency (Mar 17, 2022): NegOr cops, Army tighten security amid shooting incidents (By Mary Judaline Partlow)
SUSPECTED POLL VIOLENCE. Police personnel check the scene of the crime after a shooting incident in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, in this undated photo. The Comelec directed the police and the military to strengthen security measures in the city to prevent possible election violence from erupting. (Photo courtesy of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office)
As the election fever heats up in Negros Oriental, the police and the military in Bayawan City are tightening their joint security measures in the area to prevent possible poll violence from erupting, an election official said on Thursday.
This, after six recent shooting incidents were reported in just two weeks in Bayawan City, where three victims died.
However, these incidents have not yet been confirmed if related to the upcoming polls.
Lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano, Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor, told the Philippine News Agency he has directed Lawyer Andrei Villasis, the Bayawan City election officer, to start coordinating with the police and the Philippine Army to ramp up security measures at the earliest time possible.
These measures would include more checkpoints, mobile patrols, and other defense plans to be executed, he said.
The Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are deputized by the Comelec to ensure free, honest, peaceful, and orderly elections.
Castillano said the poll body does not have the authority to impose curfews, but he hopes the local government unit in Bayawan City will further strengthen its regulations in requiring people to remain indoors during specified hours.
He said the Provincial Joint Security Control Center (PJSCC) will be meeting on March 24 to discuss, among other things, the potential election hotspots in Negros Oriental.
Governor Roel Degamo, who previously said that some of the shooting victims were his supporters, is repeatedly asking that Bayawan City be categorized as a category “red” election hotspot, the highest classification adopted by the PJSCC in identifying these areas.
Meanwhile, the police filed on Wednesday frustrated murder charges against three suspects believed responsible for the shooting of three individuals in Barangay Kalomboyan in Bayawan City last weekend, according to Lt. Col. Ruben Verbo, Jr., head of the Police Community Affairs and Development Unit (PCADU) and public information officer of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office (NOPPO).
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1170030
As the election fever heats up in Negros Oriental, the police and the military in Bayawan City are tightening their joint security measures in the area to prevent possible poll violence from erupting, an election official said on Thursday.
This, after six recent shooting incidents were reported in just two weeks in Bayawan City, where three victims died.
However, these incidents have not yet been confirmed if related to the upcoming polls.
Lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano, Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor, told the Philippine News Agency he has directed Lawyer Andrei Villasis, the Bayawan City election officer, to start coordinating with the police and the Philippine Army to ramp up security measures at the earliest time possible.
These measures would include more checkpoints, mobile patrols, and other defense plans to be executed, he said.
The Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are deputized by the Comelec to ensure free, honest, peaceful, and orderly elections.
Castillano said the poll body does not have the authority to impose curfews, but he hopes the local government unit in Bayawan City will further strengthen its regulations in requiring people to remain indoors during specified hours.
He said the Provincial Joint Security Control Center (PJSCC) will be meeting on March 24 to discuss, among other things, the potential election hotspots in Negros Oriental.
Governor Roel Degamo, who previously said that some of the shooting victims were his supporters, is repeatedly asking that Bayawan City be categorized as a category “red” election hotspot, the highest classification adopted by the PJSCC in identifying these areas.
Meanwhile, the police filed on Wednesday frustrated murder charges against three suspects believed responsible for the shooting of three individuals in Barangay Kalomboyan in Bayawan City last weekend, according to Lt. Col. Ruben Verbo, Jr., head of the Police Community Affairs and Development Unit (PCADU) and public information officer of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office (NOPPO).
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1170030
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