Ilagan, Isabela (September 28) -- Following a joint security preparations with the Commission on Elections for the upcoming barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections next month, the Isabela Police Provincial Office (IPPO) has prepared a security plan for a peaceful barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections.
The IPPO has started implementing total gun ban and has instructed all the chiefs of police to put up check points to prevent election-related incidents.
Police Community Relations head Superintendent Roberto Bucad said the IPPO is imposing Comelec?s total gun ban within the election period which has started last Friday (September 25) and will last until November 10, 2010.
With the imposition of total gun ban, only regular members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and other law enforcement agencies are allowed to carry firearms provided that they are in full unform and on duty.
The IPPO advice the public to refrain from carrying even licensed firearms starting September 25 to November 10 as the total gun ban will be strictly enforce.
Gun ban violators were apprehended in several areas in the country during the first day of implementation.
