PNP on full alert for holidays

By Jun Elias (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 14, 2013 - 12:00am

CAMP FLORENDO, La Union, Philippines Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General
Alan Purisima has placed police nationwide on full alert to deter crimes during the Christmas and
New Year holidays.
Speaking at the Ilocos region police officer-in-charge turnover ceremony Thursday, Purisima said
police forces have been deployed in places of convergence to prevent criminal activities.
We have already given instructions to our policemen to make their presence felt in areas of
concern, he said.
With the deployment of police forces, Im sure we can prevent or possibly arrest criminals. We are
preventing the commission of crimes so we deployed policemen in areas where many people gather
together.
Policemen are not allowed to go on leave during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

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MANILA, Philippines - Five months before Christmas, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief
Director General Alan Purisima ordered all policemen not to take a holiday break and instead
focus on maintaining peace and order in the streets.
Purisima said he decided to issue the reminder so that all 148,000 policemen would not make
vacation plans for the holidays.
Policemen should be present during the holidays because its during those times when people
need policemen. People have bonuses, making them targets of criminals, he said.
Purisima noted that motive, opportunity and instrumentation are the three elements in
committing crime, and lawmen should ensure criminals would not get the opportunity.
During the holidays, the PNP usually goes on full alert, canceling all leaves of absence to
ensure availability of police if the need arises.
In the past some policemen merely had internal agreement with their colleagues, where some
had their break on Christmas Day while their relievers had their rest on New Years Day.

No Christmas break for police

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PNP Director General Alan Purisima. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, PhilippinesPolice officers this Yuletide Season will have to spend Media Noche and Noche
Buena while on duty.
The PNP will not go on break, PNP Director General Alan Purisima announced in a memorandum
Wednesday. The old practice of going on a Christmas and New Year break for this year will no longer be
observed.
Purisima ordered the police forces to remain visible on Christmas and New Year as part of the agencys
Yuletide 2013 drive.
PNP spokesman Reuben Theodore Sindac said Wednesday in a press briefing that unlike in the previous
years, policemen in all areas will render duties as if it is an ordinary working day of law enforcement.
This move is in anticipation of the increase in petty street crimes especially in crowded places such as
malls, bus terminals and churches during holidays, Sindac said.
Even before the ber months, our previous records showed an increase in petty crimes especially in
malls and during Simbang Gabi (Mass at Dawn). But as Christmas comes nearer, crime rates taper off,
he added.
As for police officers deployed to typhoon-hit provinces of Tacloban and Samar, Sindac said the PNP and
the National Capital Region Police Office are studying how to fully restore peace and order in the
calamity-stricken areas.
After Supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan) affected more than 6,000 policemen in Eastern Visayas, the PNP
sent augmentation forces in Tacloban and Samar. They will be replaced by a new batch of policemen
after 15 days.

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COPWALK: PNP ON THE RAMP 2
With the theme Dignified Uniform: Adoptable and Flexible to the Demands of Times,
Finalists of COPWALK 2 showcased different PNP uniforms design by various
designers during the fashion show at Multi-Purpose Center, Camp Crame, Quezon
City yesterday.
COPWALK 2, is another live prototype presentation of police uniforms, expanding
the categories to other sets of uniform suitable for the various functions of the PNP,
particularly for the General Office Attire (GOA) and Patrol Uniform.
While the COPWALK 1 fashion show, held last July 4, focused mainly on GOA and
limited to blue or any shades of blue as the international standard color of police
organizations, COPWALK 2 showcases a more liberal display of color shade and

fabric combination to offer a wider range of selection in design, fabric and color for
the PNP organization.
The show is among the many moves being undertaken by the PNP leadership
through the Directorate for Research and Development (DRD), in response to results
of an internal survey and a strong clamour from the rank-and-file policemen for a
change in the police uniform.
One of the GOA and Patrol Uniforms presented in the said fashion show may
perhaps be the next official attire of PNP personnel.
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PNP on alert for

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The Philippine National Police will be on heightened alert starting Tuesday next week upon the
start of the traditional Misa de Gallo where the faithful would flock to the churches at dawn
towards the Christmas.
In preparation, Police Provincial Director Dennis Agustin will be holding command conferences
with the chiefs of police manning the municipal stations and city station.

The PNP will adopt a three-tierred approach anchored on crowd security wherein detection of
explosive devices is the most complicated.

The first level targets for monitoring are the robbery gangs, shoplifters and terrorists.
The increase of the influx of people trooping to public places like malls, churches, plaza and
terminals demands heightened security.
However, the port police have to double time, considering that security equipment are still
unserviceable after the recent earthquake in the province destroyed portions of the passenger
terminal at the city tourist port.
The BPPO also braces against the spill over of criminalities from nearby provinces, considering
reports that three small-time robbery gangs have already positioned themselves in Cebu.
In fact, the Police Regional Office during a forum yesterday in Cebu said that they already
monitored one of the groups staying in Jagobiao, while the two others are staying in two pension
houses.
Plain-clothes cops are positioned in populated areas like malls.
Because of the tight security in Cebu, authorities warned that these groups might transfer to
nearby provinces like Bohol that is accessible through sea travel.
According to police regional authorities, these groups were already arrested in the past but they
managed to post bail and would usually strike during Christmas season.
Police officials, however, made it clear that there is no big-time robbery group that had
penetrated the region yet.
Meanwhile the police had also starting rounding up illegal sale of firecrackers in the streets.
Cops also remind the public that there are designated areas to sell and use firecrackers.

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PNP to tighten security protocols for Christmas season

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) will review and intensify its security protocols to ensure
the safety of holiday shoppers.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II said the PNP must double its effort
in protecting the people, as population in metropolis has doubled due to Christmas-related
activities.
Last December 15, alleged seven members of the so-called "Martilyo Gang" robbed the
jewelry section of SM City North Edsa in Quezon City while everyone was busy doing their
holiday shopping. The suspects escaped by mixing with the panicking mall goers, leaving
behind the hammer and crowbar they used during the robbery, said Roxas.
PNP chief Director General Allan Purisima said that a day after the incident, they had a
meeting with 153 mall operators and talked about suggestions on how they can protect their
customers from similar crimes.
It was suggested by the PNP that buyers of crowbars, hammers and similar items will be
given claim stub and could only get the items upon leaving the mall premises. It was also
suggested that there should be a real-time monitoring of closed-circuit television cameras
since the security agencies have the ability to train their men to monitor CCTVs.
"Nag-suggest din na bigyan ng pahinga ang security officers dahil nababato sila, hindi na
alerto," Roxas said.
Roxas added that this was just the few suggestions from the PNP and it is still the mall's
discretion on how to provide and implement their security policy since the mall operators did
not agree with their recent suggestion of having a police post inside malls.
Meanwhile, Roxas assured the public that the PNP will be strengthening its security
preparations for the coming Yuletide season.
"PNP cancels leave of absence of all its personnel to ensure ample security during Christmas
season," he said.
"Gagawin ng pamahalaan na maging ligtas ang kapaskuhan," Roxas added. (Sunnex)

Filipino police have their gun barrels taped shut to stop NYE celebratory gunfire
By DAMIEN GAYLE
UPDATED: 01:51 GMT, 28 December 2011

In many parts of the world, the traditional celebration of happy events is to fire gunshots into the air - a
kind of makeshift personal firework, if you will.
The Philipines is no different, so to keep discipline over New Year's Eve in the country this year, officers in
the Filipino police have taped their subordinates' firearms shut.
These pictures show policemen on parade for a 'sealing of firearms' ceremony at their headquarters in
Camp Crame, suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, yesterday afternoon.

Safety first: Filipino police show their pistols after being taped on the nozzle by officers at police headquarters in Camp
Crame, suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines
Discipline: Senior officers tape the end of each of their subordinates' pistols and sign the tape with red marker pen. Right,
policemen show their taped up gun barrels to their superiors

Leaders of the Philippine National Police hope taping shut their men's guns will thwart the traditional
celebratory gunfire during New Year's revelry that injures or kills several Filipinos each year.
A senior officer taped shut the ends of each of their subordinates' weapons with masking tape and signed
the end to ensure that it was not removed and stuck back on later.

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The taping will ensure that any policeman who fires his gun into the air on New Year's eve will be found
out and can be disciplined, said the national police chief.
Even members of the Filipino police's Special Action Force - the country's elite police paramilitary unit
-were forced to submit to the restriction.
Plastered for New Year: An official from the Philippine National Police Special Action Force covers the muzzle of a firearm of
an SAF member at the National Capital Region Police Office in Bicutan, south of Manila

Members of the Special Action Force stand at attention after their firearms were covered by masking tape

Standing to attention at the National Capital Region Police Office in Bicutan, south of Manila, they submit
to a senior officer covering the barrels of their assault rifles - including grenade launchers - with masking
tape.
Indeed, firing a grenade into the air just to celebrate New Year's Eve would seem, to Western eyes,
slightly irresponsible behaviour for a police officer.

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