SIXTY more lawbreakers in Metro Manila are now in jail as a result of the 2nd Warrant Day of the Southern Police District last Friday, the Journal Group learned yesterday.

SPD director Brigadier General Mark D. Pespes said that during the 24-hour period of operations, SPD operatives served outstanding warrants of arrest against dozens of targets in the southern part of the metropolis leading to the capture of 60 targets, several of them Top Most Wanted Persons or TMWPs.

The official said that two of the TMWPs were each arrested by the Parañaque City, Pasay and Taguig City Police Stations while the Las Piñas CPS caught 3 targets. The Muntinlupa CPS and the SPD District Intelligence Division each apprehended one target.

On the other hand, Pasay City policemen caught five MWPs followed by the Muntinlupa CPS with 3. The Parañaque CPS, Taguig CPS, Las Piñas CPS and Makati CPS each arrested two targets.

Brig. Gen. Pespes said that their campaign to account for Other Wanted Persons or OWPs saw the Makati CPS and Muntinlupa CPS each arresting 5 targets followed by the Taguig CPS with four, the Parañaque CPS with two and the Pateros CPS, the SPD-DTU, and the SPD District Special Operations Unit each with one arrest.

On Friday last week, the SPD’s 1st Friday-Warrant Day led to the arrest of 69 wanted persons in the SPD jurisdiction.

The SPD anti-criminality operations has earned the nod of National Capital Region Police Office director, Major Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr. who wanted the project implemented in other parts of the metropolis.

The program requires all five SPD stations and other operating units to conduct ‘intelligence-driven operations’ which would lead in the issuance of search warrants against all wanted persons and other criminals living or hiding in the territory of the SPD and serving them every Friday.

“The idea is to recover illegal drugs and firearms and other contraband being kept by lawbreakers and arresting at the same time all wanted persons in our area. We won’t be giving them any good time to sleep,” said Brig. Gen. Pespes.

The SPD director underscored the importance of such operations which he said aims to secure citizens and ensure a safer and more secure environment in the southern part of Metro Manila.

The day-long operations are also in line with the NCRPO’s effort to fully implement the 5-Focused Agenda of Philippine National Police chief General Benjamin C. Acorda Jr. which principally focuses on the conduct of aggressive law enforcement operations.

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Alfred P. Dalizon