Joint IPSO efforts to be sustained: AFP

From the Visayan Daily Star (Jul 10): Joint IPSO efforts to be sustained: AFP

The Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the Police Regional Office 6 are not taking chances, and vowed to further strengthen and sustain the joint internal peace and security efforts in the region, despite the declaration of all provinces in Negros and Panay as peaceful and ready for further development.

Negros Occidental was the last province in Western Visayas to be declared peaceful and ready for further development, which was made last month.

Maj. Gen. Rey Leonardo Guerrero, 3ID commander, who attended the Regional Joint Peace and Security Coordinating Council meeting in Jamindan, Capiz Tuesday, said the complementary and concerted effort of the AFP, the PNP and other stakeholders, through “Dagyaw Para sa Kalinong (Working Together for Peace)” paved the way for the declaration of all the provinces in the 3ID's area of operations as peaceful and ready for further development.

Chief Supt. Bernardo Diaz, newly-installed regional police director for Western Visayas, also attended the RJPSCC meeting and stressed the need for law enforcement agencies and the uniformed services, to work closely with all stakeholders to maintain peace and order, especially since the region is hosting major national and international events.

During the security meeting, the 3ID presented its midyear accomplishments on the conduct of Internal Peace and Security Operations, where credit was given to the combined efforts of the Army and the PNP, through the RJPSCC, its spokesman, Maj. Rey Tiongson, said.

The 3ID also reported the recovery of 20 firearms and the neutralization of 30 New People's Army members in Panay and Negros in the first semester of 2015, of which four had been arrested and 26 surrendered.

Sixteen explosive materials were recovered and 19 NPA camps were seized, also during the period, Tiongson said.

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