(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday suggested that the military and police put up mobile checkpoints instead of permanent ones.
The President made the suggestion in a speech before the police and military in Davao, following what he said were the sniping attacks done by the enemies on permanent checkpoints that resulted in the deaths of government security troops.
“Everyone manning the detachment and at a distance, they did not need to attack but they have acquired the skill also of sniping…(So) instead of detachment in the highways because you are only focused on those traversing them… you remove (the permanent checkpoints) and go for the mobile ones..,” Duterte said.
If the permanent checkpoints could not be avoided, he said back-up personnel could arm themselves with a machine gun.
“But be wary still because the (attacker) could be just behind,” he said.