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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Wednesday, february 15, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Senior Superintendent Jack Wanky assured that the local police are ready for possible attacks from the New People’s Army (NPA) following the termination of unilateral ceasefires.
Some police officers may not be seen in their stations, but they are just around, on guard, the city police head stressed.
The Bacolod City Police Office comprises 10 stations.
Officers are 100-percent on full alert day and night in anticipation of threats and attacks from the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, said Wanky.
Stations 3, 5 and 7 in barangays Mandalagan, Granada and Mansilingan, respectively, have received threats from the NPA in the past, he said.
While he cannot say for certain which police station the rebels would possibly target this time, Wanky reiterated that they are alert at all times.
On Feb. 1, the NPA ended its unilateral ceasefire with the government, citing the Duterte administration’s failure to release 200 political prisoners and the alleged military advances in NPA-held areas.
President Rodrigo Duterte, on the other hand, ordered the Armed Forces chief Gen. Eduardo Año to terminate the ceasefire on the evening of Feb. 3.
“We cannot have a peaceful generation. There will always be a fight,” he said in a speech in North Cotabato. “But let it not be said that I did not try. So I guess that peace with the communists cannot be realized during our generation. Maybe years from now.”
Meanwhile the Police Regional Office 18 acknowledged that “there may be threats to [police] stations under [Negros Island Region] following the lifting of the government’s unilateral ceasefire.”
Chief Superintendent Renato Gumban, regional police director, “already issued orders [on] the alert status of police stations [last week],” said Senior Inspector Armilyn Vargas, regional police spokesperson.
“The PNP (Philippine National Police) leadership reminds all its personnel to remain vigilant and alert, to maintain a steadfast conduct of preemptive patrols and undertake extra security precautions to prevent future atrocities of the NPA, and to strengthen the defense of all camps, police stations, police precincts, and foot patrol bases,” Vargas said./PN
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