Tag: HPG

Around 300 HPG personnel to be deployed to help manage traffic on roads

(Eagle News)—Around 300 personnel from the Philippine National Police’s Highway Patrol Group are set to be deployed to help in traffic enforcement in the country. The commitment to deploy the policemen in support of  “wider, more sustained and intensified” Inter-agency Council for Traffic (iACT) enforcement operations was contained in an agreement  signed by  Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade and Interior Secretary Eduardo Año. Earlier this March, Tugade also ordered the deployment of Philippine Coast Guard for […]

Chief of Iligan’s Highway Patrol Team nabbed for extortion

Three others arrested in entrapment operation launched based on complaint made via 8888 hotline (Eagle News) — The chief of Iligan’s Highway Patrol Team was arrested  for extortion in an entrapment operation on Wednesday. Apart from Senior Inspector Rolando Rigat, SP02 Crisanto Bernardo and two civilian auxiliaries identified as Mac Harvey Abad and Sidney Cañete were nabbed at 6:15 p.m., during the operation launched by joint elements of the Counter-Intelligence Task Force and the ICHPT. The […]