CAMP PANTALEON GARCIA, Imus City — Cavite police’s “Pokemon Go” operations in November yielded about 150 wanted persons, including a barangay tanod (village watchman).
Cavite provincial police officer-in-charge Senior Superintendent William Segun on Thursday said that he had ordered the implementation of the “Pokemon Go” as part of “Enhanced Managing Police Operations” with the simultaneous warrants of arrest enforced by operatives of the Cavite Police Provincial Office Intelligence Branch and the police stations across the province.
“Pokemon Go” is an initiative of the Cavite police force to go after wanted persons hiding in the province and adopted the popular electronic game’s concept to challenge police operatives’ ability to locate and capture wanted persons.
Segun said that the operations, which covered 144 arrest warrants, also included Oplan “Sita” and “Galugad” while serving the warrant of arrests to enhance police presence at target area of operations and to provide security.
Among the arrested wanted persons were the Top 1 and 2 in the Most Wanted Persons (MWPs) list of Silang, Cavite.
Police identified the MWP top 1 as Ricarido Leal San Juan, 22, a resident of Silang’s Barangay 5 for violation of Article II Sec 11, Republic Act 165, or the Patent Law; while Top 2 — facing rape charges — is Marvin Calisaan Cuevas, 22 of Sitio Muzon, Barangay Putting Kahoy, Silang.
A Top 5 MWP in Kawit, Joel Vidal Gelsano, 39, of Tondo, Manila, also charged with rape, was arrested by Kawit cops in Sta. Cruz, Manila by virtue of the warrant of arrest signed by Executive Judge Mary Charlene V. Hernandez-Azura of the Regional Trial Court Branch 22 of Imus City under Criminal Case No 16541-17 with recommended bail of PHP 200,000.
Police also arrested Dasmariñas City’s Top 8 MWP for a homicide case identified as Noel Pante Gervacio, 55. He is tanod of Barangay Salawag.
Segun has vowed not to allow wanted persons to make Cavite province their lair and assured other police interventions will be implemented province-wide to curb criminality. (Rogelio Limpin/PNA)