PNP: Over 100K personnel to be deployed for Christmas 2025

More than 100,000 personnel will be deployed across the country to secure the Christmas and New Year holidays, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Friday.

At a press conference, PNP spokesperson Police Brigadier General Randulf Tuaño said the police organization increased its deployment from 60,000 last year.

“Noong nakaraang taon, nag-deploy ang PNP ng 60,000 plus. Para po sa 2025, magde-deploy po tayo ng 100,000 plus — 70,000 dito ay ang mismong uniformed personnel at 30,000 plus ito 'yung mga augmentation units po natin,” he said.

(Last year, the PNP deployed 60,000 plus. For 2025, we will deploy 100,000 plus — 70,000 of which are uniformed personnel and 30,000 plus are from augmentation units.)

“Kung mapapansin po ninyo, ang deployment natin ay binase po natin 'yung eight focus crime natin noong October versus noong November. From 3,000 mahigit na naging 2,600, na bumaba po siya ng almost na 13%,” he added.

(If you notice, we based our deployment on our eight focus crimes in October versus November. From more than 3,000 to 2,600, which is a decrease of almost 13%.)

According to the PNP official, the heightened police visibility contributed to the 12.81% decline in focus crimes from October to November and this strategy will be implemented for the holiday rush.

Focus crimes are offenses considered as serious in nature with sufficient frequency and regularity. 

These include murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, robbery, theft, carnapping of motor vehicles, and carnapping of motorcycle.—AOL, GMA Integrated News