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(Eagle News) — Two were killed while two others were hurt during an armed encounter in Lanao del Norte over the weekend, the Philippine National Police said. The PNP identified the fatalities as Special Action Force member, Police Corporal John Oliver Rodriguez and Naen Ampatua Tumog. Rodriguez was part of a group of policemen from the elite PNP unit who were out to serve a search warrant for Tumog’s home in Barangay Rebucon on Saturday. […]
(Eagle News)–Two companies of the Philippine National Police’s elite Special Action Force will be deployed to Cebu City to help implement the enhanced community quarantine there. In a statement, Joint Task Force COVID Shield commander Police Lieutenant General Guillermo Eleazar said apart from the 150 personnel “mobility assets” that include “multi-purpose armored vehicles similar to what we used in the implementation of ECQ in Metro Manila” will be deployed. “We have already coordinated with […]
(Eagle News) — Over 200 members of the Special Action Force have been deployed to assist in the “hard lockdown” of Manila’s Tondo District 1, the National Capital Region Police Office said on Monday, May 4. NCRPO Chief Debold Sinas made the revelation of the deployment of the 250 SAF members in a statement, as he thanked the SAF for its “generosity…in sending us augmentation in this battle against the unseen.” “Verily, they will be […]
(Eagle News)–Around 70 members of the Special Action Force were deployed on Tuesday, Oct. 8, to guard the New Bilibid Prison. The SAF personnel from the 33rd Special Action Company, 3rd Special Action Battalion replaced their colleagues from the 72nd Special Action Company, 7th Special Action Battalion earlier deployed to the national penitentiary. The National Capital Region Police Office said the 70 SAF members would be deployed to “critical areas” in the NBP “as part […]
(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court has lifted the temporary restraining order it had issued on the conduct of the Mamasapano trial at the Sandiganbayan. This means that the trial stemming over charges filed against former President Benigno Aquino III and several others for the deaths of 44 members of the Special Action Force due to the botched operation in 2015 can now proceed. The TRO was issued by the SC in February last year, after family […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, April 16, blamed former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas for the deaths of 44 members of the Philippine National Police’s Special Action Force in Mamasapano in 2015, and slammed then-President Noynoy Aquino for his handling of the botched operation. “Hanggang ngayon, hindi ko talaga maintindihan at gusto ko tanungin…bakit pumasok ang SAF doon..,” Duterte said. According to Duterte, in the first place, the police were only trained in terrain in […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police will deploy its elite Special Action Force squad to Samar and Bicol, based on Memorandum Order No. 32. In a statement, PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said two companies or almost 300 SAF members will be deployed to those provinces, with four to six officers including the company commander. “Ang isang company, more or less mga nasa 127…12 yun ang size kapag sinabi natin one company. It’s more or less 127 to […]
(Eagle News) — Criminal and administrative charges will be filed against the Special Action Force member who was caught in a pot session in Taguig on Saturday, June 2. National Capital Regional Police Office head Chief Supt. Guillermo Eleazar said in a radio interview on Sunday, June 3, that to be charged was P03 Lyn Tubig, who already faces administrative charges for being absent without leave. Tubig was caught in the session after police, in […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The Philippine National Police will deploy Special Action Force mobile training teams who will train new police recruits to regional police offices. Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said this was if the SAF training school in Sta. Rosa, Laguna could no longer accommodate the police recruits who are now required to undergo the basic internal security operation course. It was Albayalde himself who made the training compulsory for […]
(Eagle News) — For Senator Panfilo Lacson, the former Special Action Force officials who were implicated in the SAF fund mess were only “forced” to return the P37 million of the full amount. “Kung walang threat na magfifile sa Ombudsman, would they even think of returning or distributing? Mukhang hindi,” Lacson said in an interview with reporters on Tuesday, May 22, the same day his panel held a hearing on the controversy. Lacson noted that […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Some members of the Philippine National Police Academy Maragtas Class of 2018 will soon undergo the rigid Special Action Force training, the first batch to be required to undergo such. Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde, said 66 of the 76 new PNP officials who graduated in March will have to pass the 6-month basic internal security operations course of the SAF, apart from the patrol officer basic course […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The Philippine National Police will no longer accept police trainees who will not pass the basic training meant for Special Action Force commandos. Speaking in his first press conference as PNP chief, Police Director General Oscar Albayalde said after the training in the Philippine Public Safety College, all police recruits will be required to undergo the six-month training in basic internal security operation. He said this was better than […]
