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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