ILOILO CITY – Forty-five individuals have been arrested for violating the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections gun ban in Western Visayas.
The Police Regional Office-6 said 43 were civilians and two were a security guard and an off-duty jail officer.
Police Major Mary Grace Borio, PRO-6 spokesperson, said that the gun ban implemented by the Commission on Elections has rules pertaining to law enforcers.“We are not allowed to carry our service firearms anywhere else when we are off-duty,” Borio said. Negros Occidental topped the list with 14 violators, Iloilo and Capiz with seven each, Iloilo City, six; Aklan, five; Bacolod City, four; and Guimaras and the Regional Mobile Force Battalion-6, one each.
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