ONE NATION UNDER GOD: Police Visibility

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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">POLICE VISIBILITY. Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) personnel patrol the streets of Manila on September 3, 2016, as </span><a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Davao City</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and Metro Manila are placed on high alert following the Friday night blast. Photo by Noel Celis/</span><a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">AFP</a></b><br />
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MANILA, Philippines – The <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Philippine National Police</a> (<a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">PNP</a>) in Metro Manila <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145041-metro-manila-full-alert-davao-explosion" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">has been on full alert </a>since midnight of Saturday, September 3 – hours after <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145033-explosion-roxas-night-market-davao-city" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">the deadly blast at the Roxas Night Market in Davao City.</a></div>
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Police Senior Superintendent <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Rhoderick Armamento</a>, chief of the <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">National Capital Region Police Office</a> (<a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">NCRPO</a>) Regional Operations Division, said they will maximize full patrol deployment and put up more checkpoints in Metro Manila.</div>
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"<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Before, kung 60% lang 'yung nasa labas namin, ngayon we see to it na 90% of our troops ay nagpa-patrol, at 10% lang 'yung naiiwan sa opisina. 'Yun 'yung pagbabago ngayon. Makakakita kayo ng medyo madaming pulis ngayon na umiikot especially sa mga malls, sa mga centers, sa mga LRTs [and] MRT</em>," he added.</div>
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(Before, if only 60% of our troops go out, now we see to it that 90% of our troops are going on patrols, and only 10% stay in offices. That's what has changed. You will see a bit more police forces going around, especially in malls, in centers, in the LRTs and MRT.)</div>
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The <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">AFP</a> has decided to augment the police's visibility patrols and checkpoints in Metro Manila <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">with its armed forces</span>. (READ: <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145078-davao-explosion-september-2016-armed-forces-alert-metro" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">After Davao bombing, AFP on heightened alert in Metro</a>)</div>
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"<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">'Yung aming checkpoints in-intensify na rin 'yung checkpoints namin katulad nung nakaraang elections. Lahat nung strategic places na dating nilagyan namin, nagkaroon ulit kami ngayon</em>," Armamento explained.</div>
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(Like in the past elections, we have intensified security in our checkpoints. We've placed checkpoints in strategic places again.)</div>
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<b><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">JOINT TASK FORCE. Police Senior Superintendent </span><a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Rhoderick Armamento</a><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">from the</span><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">National Capital Region Police Office</a><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">and Brigadier General Roberto Domines from the</span><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Armed Forces of the Philippines</a><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">discuss plans to secure Metro Manila after the</span><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Davao blast</a><span style="color: #737372; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">. Photo by Jee Y. Geronimo/Rappler</span></b></div>
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The <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">NCRPO</a> has also put the police on forward deployment in public places of convergence to increase and enhance police visibility.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">After the deadly explosion on Friday night, September 2, </span>President <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Rodrigo Duterte</a> on Saturday <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145043-duterte-declares-state-of-lawlessness-ph" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">declared a "state of lawlessness" in the country</a>. (For updates on the <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Davao blast</a>, check <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/live-blog-davao-bombing-september-2016" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="Live blog davao blast">Rappler's live blog</a>)</div>
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It simply means <a href="http://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/145048-davao-explosion-state-of-lawlessness" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">more soldiers and policemen will now be deployed</a>, government will set up more checkpoints, and impose, if needed, curfew in certain areas. It is the mildest of the 3 commander-in-chief powers of the President granted by the Constitution.</div>
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Brigadier General Roberto Domines, commander of the JTF-NCR, said that with the declaration of a "<a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">state of lawlessness</a>," the <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">AFP</a> is now empowered to augment the<a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">PNP</a> in its security operations.</div>
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"There will be no independent military operations to be conducted. We will always be in tandem with the <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">PNP</a>," Domines said in a mix of English and Filipino.</div>
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On the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145045-abu-sayyaf-responsibility-davao-explosion" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">claiming responsibility for the blast</a>, Domines said: "What else is new?<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> 'Yun naman palaging ginagawa nila </em>(They always do that), so all we have to do is enhance our operations and be prepared for anything."</div>
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He again urged people not to panic, assuring them "they will feel [more] secure with the increased number of <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">AFP</a> and <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/145090-police-visibility-metro-manila-davao-explosion-2016#" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">PNP</a> personnel in the streets."</div>
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As of Saturday evening, 14 have been reported killed – 10 of them died in the blast site, while 4 died in the hospital. Of the more than 60 wounded, 15 underwent surgery while 3 have been discharged, Dr Leonardo de Vega, chief of the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) hospital, said.</div>
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"Tiny shrapnels" were found in the victims' bodies, according to him. "Most of them sustained massive shrapnel injuries in the liver and 15 were operated on." </div>
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Police Visibility READ: PHILIPPINES Police visibility increases in Metro after Davao blast

The Armed Forces of the Philippines also assures the public: 'There will be no independent military operations to be conducted. We wil...