Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Police and military leaders in Davao Region brush aside coup rumors



DAVAO CITY, Feb 18 (PIA) Police and military commanders asserted their loyalty to the people and to the duly constituted authorities amid the coup jitters and bomb threats circulating in the city, following the Mamasapano incident.

Speaking at the AFP-PNP Press Corps briefing at the Task Force Davao Headquarters, Chief Superintendent Wendy Rosario, director of the Police Regional Office 11 said there is no need of loyalty check among his men since everyone remains loyal to the people and the constitution.

He stressed that the police in the region is more focused on its law enforcement functions and in target hardening against the New People’s Army due to the recent foiled attack at a police station in Mati City Sunday night.

“Our men remain loyal to the hierarchy of our command,” Rosario pointed out.

He stressed that the citizenry and the economy suffer much whenever there are rumors of destabilization.

Rosario said that coup jitters are mere speculations.

“We always abide with the chain of command or line of authority,” he said.  

Major General Eduardo Ano, commander of the Eastern Mindanao Command said the soldiers are also concentrating on fulfilling their mission and are no longer concern with the political issues besetting the country.

He said they are busy running after the communist rebels.

“The military in the region is united and are doing our job alongside with our counterparts in the police,” Ano said.

Francisco Villaroman, chief of the Public Safety Command Center has brushed aside any coup jitter in Mindanao but takes bomb threats seriously.

He said his office would immediately dispatch K-9 units whenever they receive calls of bomb threats coming from different establishments in the city.

Villaroman expressed relief that all responses yielded negative result.

He warned rumor-mongers using the cellular phone that the PSCC will surely arrest once they are traced using a state-of-the-art technology.  (PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)

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