PNP identifies b’gay, SK election hotspots
>> Sunday, August 20, 2023
The Philippine National Police on Tuesday revealed that it has monitored 27 areas that needed to be placed under the red category or areas of concern ahead of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in October this year.
PNP deputy chief for operations Lt. Gen. Michael John Dubria explained that they have four categories for considering election hotspots — green, yellow, orange and red.
Green refers to areas that do not have security concerns and are generally peaceful and orderly, while Yellow are areas of concern, which means that these have a history of election-related incidents in the last elections, possible employment of partisan armed groups, the occurrence of politically motivated election-related incidents and had been previously declared under the Commission on Elections control.
PNP deputy chief for operations Lt. Gen. Michael John Dubria explained that they have four categories for considering election hotspots — green, yellow, orange and red.
Green refers to areas that do not have security concerns and are generally peaceful and orderly, while Yellow are areas of concern, which means that these have a history of election-related incidents in the last elections, possible employment of partisan armed groups, the occurrence of politically motivated election-related incidents and had been previously declared under the Commission on Elections control.
Orange, meanwhile, means areas of immediate concern where there is a serious armed threat while Red means areas of grave concern, which exhibit combined factors under the Yellow category with serious armed threats that may warrant the motu proprio declaration of Comelec control.
“We have some figures here but this is still to be submitted to the Comelec en banc for approval but for a bird’s eye view of our election areas of concern we have category green which has 37,683, that is election with no area of concern. For Yellow, we have 4,085, for Orange, we have 232 and for Red, we have 27 but these figures were based from the past elections,” Dubria said.
“So these is just a ballpark figure that supposed to validate some more together, we have to get the approval of the Comelec en banc. So as of the moment that is the information that we can provide,” he added.
PNP chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr., meantime, said that they are still monitoring Negros Oriental and areas in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and added that the PNP started identifying policemen whose family members and other relatives are planning to run for the BSKE elections in October this year. -- Glen Jacob Jose
“We have some figures here but this is still to be submitted to the Comelec en banc for approval but for a bird’s eye view of our election areas of concern we have category green which has 37,683, that is election with no area of concern. For Yellow, we have 4,085, for Orange, we have 232 and for Red, we have 27 but these figures were based from the past elections,” Dubria said.
“So these is just a ballpark figure that supposed to validate some more together, we have to get the approval of the Comelec en banc. So as of the moment that is the information that we can provide,” he added.
PNP chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr., meantime, said that they are still monitoring Negros Oriental and areas in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and added that the PNP started identifying policemen whose family members and other relatives are planning to run for the BSKE elections in October this year. -- Glen Jacob Jose
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