The PNP may raise the number of police security escorts assigned to local chief executives facing serious threats, in response to the recent spate of deadly attacks on mayors and governors, a senior police official told lawmakers. /PDI
Baccay said a number of local officials had made requests for more police escorts in the aftermath of Degamo’s murder.
“For now the move of the PNP is to provide additional security personnel with those with validated threat assessment,” Baccay said. Abalos assured the local leaders that their request would be heeded—but subject to the PNP’s threat assessment.Degamo was the fourth local government executive to fall victim to an armed assault in just two weeks.
Authorities arrested four suspects—Joric Labrador, Joven Javier, Benjie Rodriguez and Osmundo Rivero—who were all former military men dishonorably discharged from the service, while a fifth unidentified man was killed in an alleged shootout with pursuing law enforcers.Last month, PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. ordered all regional directors to check if the government officials in their areas had enough security detail.
Laguna Rep. Dan Fernandez, the committee chair, agreed that the situation was “already alarming and dangerous.”
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