Police on alert against NPA attacks

ZAMBOANGA. Superintent (Supt) Rodrigo Maramo, Police Regional Office (PRO)-Zamboanga Peninsula operation chief, provides security update on the members of the media in a press conference Friday, December 14. Seated from left to right were Senior Supt. Christopher Birung, the chief directorial staff; Chief Supt. Edwin de Ocampo, deputy regional director for administration; Chief Supt. Emmanuel Luis Licup, PRO-Zamboanga Peninsula director; and, Senior Supt. Narciso Verdadero, deputy regional director for operations. (Bong Garcia)
ZAMBOANGA. Superintent (Supt) Rodrigo Maramo, Police Regional Office (PRO)-Zamboanga Peninsula operation chief, provides security update on the members of the media in a press conference Friday, December 14. Seated from left to right were Senior Supt. Christopher Birung, the chief directorial staff; Chief Supt. Edwin de Ocampo, deputy regional director for administration; Chief Supt. Emmanuel Luis Licup, PRO-Zamboanga Peninsula director; and, Senior Supt. Narciso Verdadero, deputy regional director for operations. (Bong Garcia)

THE police force has been placed on high alert to thwart possible attacks by the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in the Zamboanga Peninsula following the extension in the imposition of martial law.

Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Luis Licup, Police Regional Office-Zamboanga Peninsula director, placed his personnel on alert after the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) ordered the NPA, its armed wing, to launch offensive across the country in response to the extension of martial law here in Mindanao.

In a joint session of Congress, 235 voted in favor for the extension of martial law until December 31, 2019 while 28 voted against and one abstained.

Licup said that all provincial and city directors have been ordered to adopt target hardening and strengthen security measures in all vital government installations, including undermanned municipal police headquarters.

He said that all units have also been ordered to launch offensive against the NPA rebels in their respective areas.

The NPA rebels in the region are under the NPA’s Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee and they are concentrated in the three Zamboanga provinces--Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay.

Licup has also ordered the conduct of counter-strike operations against members of the NPA’s sparrow unit, who are going around the region.

The police official said they have received information that all of the lawmakers who voted in favor for the extension of marital law here in Mindanao are targets of the NPA attacks aside from policemen and soldiers.

He said that coordination has been made with their counterpart in the military for a coordinated efforts in maintaining law and order in the region. (SunStar Philippines)

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