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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Gun ban starts
By Miko Santos
NATIONAL Anti-Kidnapping Task Force (Naktaf) chief Angelo Reyes and top police officials led inspections at the start of the gun ban in connection with the May 2004 elections at midnight Monday.
"We are walking the beat. We have to set the example," Reyes said.
Reyes said the police and the military were ordered to increase their visibility as they maintained peace and order.
"We should go out of our air-conditioned rooms to see the real problem," De Leon said.
The gun will last until June 9, 2004.
Senior Supt. Joel Goltiao, PNP spokesman, said the prohibition will be strictly enforced. Only uniformed policemen and military personnel on active duty and those exempted by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be allowed to carry firearms outside of their house.
Mobile checkpoints, already in place in Metro Manila, will also enforce the gun ban.
Meanwhile, Makati police Monday arrested a man claiming to be an agent of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (Isafp) for illegal possession of a gun.
Nemecio Villamar was caught with a 9mm pistol.
Villamar's arrest stemmed from a complaint by Jeffrey Reobos, a delivery boy of a beerhouse in Makati.
Reobos complained that Villamar approached him inside the toilet of the Ihaw-Ihaw sa Sawali in Barangay Guadalupe Nuevo and manhandled him without any provocation.
Reobos said Villamar brandished a 9mm pistol in his other hand.
Police said Villamar failed to present any identification card from Isafp as well as show proof that he is exempted from the gun ban.
(December 16, 2003 issue)
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