PNP and AFP is ready to assist the COMELEC starting the campaign today until election on October 28

City Police Director Superintendent Glenn

Macario Dulawan (Photo by JONG CADION)

By JONG CADION

PAGADIAN CITY, ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR– The Pagadian City Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are ready to assist the Commission on Elections to ensure the conduct of a Clean Honest Accountability Meaningful and Peaceful (CHAMP) barangay elections today October 28, 2013.

“We are 100% ready and had already established preparations and made our necessary plans together with our counterpart from the AFP-Philippine Army thru the 53^rd Infantry Battalion. Our action is under the supervision by the COMELEC Officials from the start of the campaign up to today the barangay elections proper,” City Police Director Superintendent Glenn Macario Dulawan told SOLAR NEWS.  
 

Dulawan said the deployment of troops to the polling centers, establishment of COMELEC-PNP-AFP random checkpoints, and the strict enforcement of COMELEC Gun Ban are among the security plans laid down for the barangay elections resulted to the arrested of 2 civilian suspects.
“I have already submitted to the provincial headquarters the final list of PNP personnel to be deployed to the different polling centers,” Dulawan said.

Dulawan said the PNP strictly implemented Comelec’s 45-day ban on carrying firearms at the start of election period. “In fact, we have arrested two persons for the gun ban violation and we have filed formal charges against them in the court,” Dulawan disclosed.

To raise public awareness, the police official stressed that police community relations (PCR) staff also distributed brochures on the prohibited acts in connection with the barangay elections during the “Ugnayan sa Barangay,” a regular program of the PNP regularly held in the 54 barangays in the city.

5 out of 54 barangays were on the watch list, these are Barangay Kawit, Sta. Lucia, Poloyagan, and Dumagoc, the police said.