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GEN. SANTOS CITY -- The Regional Public
Safety Battalion 12 was conferred with the title of Best Regional Public
Safety Battalion in the recent concluded 116th Police service anniversary rites
and awarding of PNP units and personnel for outstanding achievements in the
police service.

The awarding was in Camp Crame Quezon
City last Wednesday.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A still unidentified gunman shot dead a barangay kagawad in Makilala, North Cotabato, around 3 a.m., Friday, reports from the Makilala Police said.Investigators identified the victim as Florante Cuas, 46, first kagawad of Barangay Sinkatulan, Makilala.Heidi, the victim’s wife, said her husband was sitting in one corner of their terrace when the gunman, armed with a caliber 45 pistol, pumped bullets into his head, several times.Members of the Scenes of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) in North Cotabato recovered from the crime scene seven empty bullets from a pistol, four of whi

MAGUINDANAO
--- Officials served on Friday a termination order for the missing mayor of
Talitay, wanted since 2016 for keeping a big volume of shabu and unlicensed
firearms.

Montasir Sabal
was discharged from the service by the Ombudsman for undeclared ownership of
lands and a house in Davao City and not for his alleged involvement in
large-scale drug trafficking.

TACURONG CITY --- Officials have offered P300,000 for any information leading to the arrest of the killers of local journalist Leo Diaz.Diaz, a columnist of a tabloid published weekly in General Santos City and a volunteer reporter of station dxMY in Cotabato City, was shot dead by gunmen on Monday in President Quirino town in Sultan Kudarat.Sultan Kudarat Gov. Pax Mangudadatu told reporters on Thursday that he has allocated P200,000 for the bounty, to be augmented with P100,000 more by the President Quirino municipal government.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Maranao mayors are now helping prevent Maute terrorists from launching attacks on state forces in Marawi City from the navigable Lake Lanao.Local officials in towns along Lake Lanao have started tagging passenger watercrafts and those that fishermen use with security marks in support of the government’s on-going operations in Marawi City.Marawi City, the capital of Lanao del Sur, is also located along the 340-square kilometer Lake Lanao.Mayors have also deployed barangay tanods to monitor boats cruising through all four corners of the lake to restrain the movement of Maute

It happened in about 41 seconds 41 years ago.The most recent tremor that hit South-Central Mindanao on August 5 was a quivering reminder of the historic Magnitude 7.2 Earthquake that literally razed to the ground at least nine of the city’s buildings on August 17, 1976 at 12:10 a.m.The Cotabato City tsunami quake was more popularly known locally as the Intensity 8 Earthquake as it was then projected in the news and by souvenir items like silkscreen T-shirt prints--although it measured Magnitude 7.2 in the Richter Scale, according to seismological studies.More than 8,000 people were killed

COTABATO CITY --- The city government will crack the whip harder against drug traffickers now that law enforcement agencies have expanded authority to run after them under martial law.Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi and her 37 constituent-barangay captains agreed on Wednesday to maximize their campaign against circulation here of shabu even as more than 200 local peddlers had been arrested in recent months.They also reached a consensus during their meeting to draft maps of all barangays here to hasten the hunt for drug dealers eluding arrest during law enforcement operations and to ease the wor

KORONADAL CITY – Unidentified gunmen today shot dead a village official and injured
his cousin in a daylight shooting in Barangay Rotunda, this city, police said.

Supt. Romeo Galgo
Jr, spokesperson for police in SOCCSKSARGEN, said Chairperson Baltazar Bermil,
50 of Barangay Topland, was driving the Barangay Patrol Vehicle with Nida
Parcon heading to the city center when shot by one of two men on motorbike at
10:20 a.m.

ISULAN,
Sultan Kudarat – A drug was killed after he tried, but failed, to
set off a hand grenade toward police officers during anti-drug operation in Bagumbayan,
Sultan Kudarat Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Senior
Supt. Raul Supiter, Sultan Kudarat police director, said the suspect, Gilbert
Golingay, was inside his home in Sitio Lawa, Barangay Saripinang, Bagumbayan
town when the police, armed with search warrant, arrived.
Supiter
said the police were to implement search warrant for illegal drugs and gun

COTABATO CITY - A magnitude 4.1 quake hit Upi in Maguindanao and its environs, the state volcanology office today said.The 2:21 p.m. tremor, tectonic in origin, was traced 43 kilometers west of Upi and has a depth of 19 kilometers, according to Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).No reported casualty or damages to property was reported.