PAGADIAN
CITY (Jan. 1, 2019) - The Police Regional Office 9 gladly
announced that the New Year Celebration of 2018 in the entire Zamboanga
Peninsula was generally peaceful as it recorded zero cases for stray bullet,
indiscriminate firing and firecracker-related incidents during the New Year
celebration in the region.
Except for a few cases of reported incidents,
such as shooting incident in Isabela City and Kumalarang, Zamboanga Del Sur Pagadian
City and hacking incident in Zamboanga City and Payao, Zamboanga Sibugay, this
year’s New Year revelry in the entire region has been “generally peaceful” as the
Police Regional Office (PRO) 9 recorded “negative” incidents of stray bullet,
indiscriminate firing, and fire or burning incident due to firecrackers. There
were no reported major injuries in relation to use of firecrackers.
PCSUPT Emmanuel Luis D Licup, PRO9
Regional Director, attributed the achievement to the intensified implementation
of security and public safety campaign launched by the PRO9 through its Ligtas
Paskuhan 2018, a plan designed to minimize crimes and incidents during the
Yuletide season.
He also attributed such achievement to
the step up implementation of firecracker ban-sale and use of firecrackers and
pyrotechnic products in the whole region, wherein a total of 14 Illegal Possession/use/sale
of firecrackers incidents were registered with more than 1, 000 pieces of firecrackers
such as five star, Judas belts, rockets (kwitis), piccolo, sticks of seven colors
and among others amounting to Php 28, 990 were confiscated by the police in the
region.
The PRO9 recorded only two minor incidents
due to firecrackers that occurred on December 23 and 24, 2018 while arrested 6
individuals due to
arrest due to illegal possession/use/sale
of firecrackers. The Zamboanga City Police have also confiscated a total of 48 canons
made of PVC canon known as “Boga.”
PCSUPT Licup announced that not one
among the 9, 000 policemen under the Police Regional Office 9 were found to
have fired his service firearms during the New Year’s revelry.
Earlier, the PNP hierarchy implemented
the no taping of gun muzzles of every PNP personnel nationwide.
Meanwhile, the Regional Director
acknowledged the support and cooperation of general public throughout the
region in the realization of peaceful and injury free New Year celebration. (By
JONG D.CADION with PRO9 PIO PR and Photo)
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