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PNP says Calabarzon ops prevented NPA attacks on state forces in NCR
By JOVILAND RITA,GMA NewsPolice operations in Calabarzon helped prevent attacks planned by the New People’s Army against government forces in Metro Manila, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Tuesday.
In a statement, PNP chief Police General Debold Sinas said the NPA’s move is to revive armed city partisan units while it prepares hit squads based in the countryside that could be deployed to cities on missions.
“The PNP's intensified anti-criminality and anti-terrorism drive in CALABARZON, led by the CIDG and in cooperation with the local police units of PRO4A, resulted to the seizure of several high-powered firearms and explosives believed to have been acquired by the CPP-NPA as part of its plan to commit attacks against government forces in connection with the pronouncement of the top leadership of the CPP-NPA-NDF,” he said.
On March 7, nine activists were killed while six others were arrested in simultaneous police operations in Calabarzon after state forces elements conducted simultaneous implementation of search warrants against “communist terrorists.”
According to Police Regional Office 4A, the authorities recovered explosives and several firearms, allegedly from target individuals.
Several progressive groups decried the deadly crackdown,
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Sinas said the Calabarzon area is a strategic secret entry point of firearms and explosives that will be transported and positioned to Metro Manila.
Citing intelligence reports, he said loose firearms as well as the subjects of the arrest warrants are located in several locations in the region.
Sinas added that investigation showed that these mass organization leaders have a role to stockpile arms and provide covert forward operating bases for NPA operation in the urban areas.
According to PNP, the place specified in the search warrant was voluntarily identified by former rebels and operatives of the NPA operating in Calabarzon.
Citing report from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Sinas said the area is a known arms and logistics depot of the NPA in Southern Tagalog
He added that the location was a meeting place of the “underground personalities” of NPA Southern Tagalog Region who were arrested during the March 7 operation.
According to him, these individuals converged in the location in the last week of February. — BM, GMA News