WESTERN VISAYAS – Overall, the New Year Celebration in Western Visayas is generally peaceful. Western Visayas has improved in its overall crime picture with the decrease in Volume of the 8-Focus Crimes from 289 (December 16, 2017 to January 1, 2018) to 235 (December 16, 2018 to January 1, 2019) or an equivalent to 18.69% decrease. Physical Injuries hits the highest in the record with 128 incidents while carnapping is the lowest with only one (1) case.
From December 16, 2018 to 9:30AM of January 1, 2019, PRO6 conducted a total of thirteen (13) operations against Illegal Possession, Use and Sale of Firecrackers which resulted in the arrest of one (1) personality and confiscation of Firecrackers in the amount of 154,775 pesos.
During the New Year Celebration, Police Regional Office 6 deployed its 1,820 personnel (110-PCOs and 1,710- PNCOs) to secure all Places of Convergence and Transportation Hubs/Terminals in addition to its usual deployment in the whole region while maintaining the full alert status.
From 6:00PM of December 31, 2018 to 6:00AM of January 1, 2019, PRO6 was able to record two (2) Stray Bullet incidents which injured two (2) persons in Janiuay and Maasin (victim is minor) in province of Iloilo. On Indiscriminate Firing, Police Regional Office 6 was able to arrest one (1) civilian in Mandurriao, Iloilo City and was able to confiscate one (1) 9mm revolver which was used by the suspect.
For the period December 16, 2018 to date, PRO6 was able to record forty (40) firecracker-related injuries broken down as follows: Aklan-1; Capiz-18; Iloilo-9; Iloilo City-3; Bacolod City-7; and Negros Occidental-2. Out of the 40 incidents, only one (1) was recorded before Christmas and all other 39 cases occured from December 26, 2018 onwards. Guimaras and Antique has no reported Firecracker-related Injuries/Casualty. It is also worthy to note that no fire or burning incident related to use of firecrackers occured in the whole region.
The successful security coverage is attributed to focused law enforcement operations, the implementation of Oplan Ligtas Paskuhan 2018 and the support and cooperation of the community and other stakeholders. | PRO-6 PIO
