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COTABATO CITY -- Crime rate in this city dropped by 51 percent during the first quarter of this year, police said.In a report during the Ugnayan sa Rehiyon Dose held at the city hall Thursday, local police officials led by Senior Supt. Rolly Octavio told visiting Police Regional Office 12 personnel that the city only recorded 90 index crimes from January to April this year.Index crimes were categorized as theft (27), robbery (27), physical injury (12), homicide (11), murder (9), and motorcycle theft (4).

CARMEN, North Cotabato —The municipal government of Carmen handed over more than 100 high-powered loose firearms to the 6th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army, leading the rest of the province in supporting the national government's Balik Baril Program (BPP).Among those who witnessed the handover ceremony were Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza, North Cotabato Governor Emmylou Talin?o-Mendoza, and 6th Infantry Division commander Major General Arnel dela Vega.Also present were Chief Supt.

KORONADAL CITY –- An internet cafe attendant who uses internet in peddling illegal drugs was arrested by agents of the Koronadal City anti-drug abuse council and the local police early Tuesday morning.Dr. Glorio Sandig, CADAC action officer, said Dandave Sumalpong, 30 of Rizal Street, Barangay Zone 4 was arrested during buy bust operation at 12:15 a.m.

GEN. SANTOS CITY --Police Regional Office 12(PRO12) donned a newly promoted Police
Superintendent following a ceremony at PRO 12 Grandstand on Monday morning
April 16, 2018.

Newly promoted Police Superintendent Joel M Fuerte
took his solemn oath for his new rank before the men and women of PRO 12.

PARANG,
Maguindanao – Police killed here three men who resisted arrest and
traded shots with law enforcers during the conduct of checkpoint on election
gun ban.

Police later
found out the suspects were wanted in connection with the murder of a woman and
a former village chairperson last March here.

Supt. Ibrahim
Jambiran, town police chief, said the three who were on board a motorbike and
armed with hand guns traded shots with lawmen at 11 a.m. when flagged down at a
checkpoint in Barangay Gumagadong Calawag.

NORTH COTABATO --- Four were hurt in separate bombings that rocked central Mindanao late Monday in what authorities theorized as possible retaliations by militant blocs for losses in recent encounters with the military.Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzales, spokesman of the Police Regional Office-12, said Tuesday three farmers ---- Leonardo Baclayon, 56, Jerry Cordova, 44, and the 34-year-old Ariel Abrenica, 36 --- were drinking together in Barangay Kulambog in Pikit, North Cotabato when one of two men on a motorcycle that pulled over nearby hurled at them a fragmentation grenade.The suspects hur

COTABATO CITY -- At least 20 persons were caught violating the city's anti-smoking ordinance Monday and they were penalized, Cotabato City Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi said in her FB posts.She said the campaign against smoking in public continues and will be intensified.Of the 20 violators, some paid the penalty while others performed community service. We will continue this campaign against smoking, she said. Nawa’y magsilbi itong leksyon sa ating lahat. Bilang ina ng ating lungsod, tungkulin ko na mapanatili itong maayos, malinis, at ligtas para sa ating lahat.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The police in M’lang, Cotabato has intensified their hunt against a former police officer assigned at the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) for his alleged connections with a drug and carnapping syndicate operating in Central Mindanao.Chief Inspector Rolly Oranza, chief of M’lang PNP, identified the subject as Benjamin Giyani Wahadin, who, for several years now, has been hiding at Purok Santo Nino in Barangay Buayan, M’lang.Wahadin, records from PNP, is wanted for carnapping and drug trafficking.According to Oranza, Wahadin has been discharged from his post as P

COTABATO CITY -- The whole franchise area of Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) plunged into darkness for more than three hours after a huge coconut palms hit the 69 KV line of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP)from Nuling sub-station to the city.Arlene Hepiga of Cotabato Light said the interruption occurred at about 5:30 p.m. during heavy down pour with strong winds brought about by the Low Pressure Area east of Mindanao island.Power was restored three hours later after NGCP linemen found and removed the coconut palm then resume power supply.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Two hinterland towns in North Cotabato are considered by the Philippine Army as ‘problematic’ or ‘very challenging’ in terms of terrain and alleged ‘support’ that the communist guerillas are getting from the communities, a military spokesperson said.First Lieutenant Prolen Bonacua, spokesperson for the Army’s 19thInfantry Battalion, identified these areas as towns of Arakan and Magpet, both in North Cotabato.The towns of Arakan, Magpet, President Roxas, and the city of Kidapawan, all in North Cotabato, are the newest places of assignment of the 19thIB of the 901stBrigade,