6 nabbed, scores profiled in Davao’s Oplan Bulabog

DAVAO CITY – The Davao City Police Office (DCPO) continues to conduct its weekly Oplan Bulabog and rounded up 1,657 individuals, which resulted to the arrest of six wanted persons on Friday.

Oplan Bulabog is a joint anti-criminality and terrorism operation being conducted by the security forces in different areas in the city. Police Sr. Inspector Maria Teresita Gaspan, spokesperson of Davao City Police Office (DCPO), said the combined forces rounded persons without identification cards in about 19 villages.

Insp. Gaspan said the simultaneous operations resulted in the profiling of 1,657 individual residents, among them 1,311 individuals with identification and 346 transient residents without identification, including two evacuees from Marawi .

Of the 1,657, Gaspan said six wanted persons were arrested by virtue of warrants of arrest for various serious criminal cases.

They were Glenn Albano for frustrated murder; Robert Relacion for murder; Erick Rulete for violation of City Ordinance No. 0367-12 or the Anti-Smoking Law; Jerry Joseph for theft; Arnold Bucol for Rape and Acts of Lasciviousness; and Allan Feliciano Corpuz for murder.

The operatives also issued 15 temporary operators permit and the impounding of six single motorcycles for various traffic violations.

The operation started around 6 a.m. Friday conducted jointly by the DCPO, Task Force Davao, Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB), Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Regional Mobile unit (RMU), National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) XI, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) XI, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) XI, Regional Intelligence Unit (RIU), Aviation Security Unit (AVSEU) XI, and Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID). (Rhoda Grace Saron/PNA)

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