MANILA, Philippines?Backtracking on its earlier decision, the National Capital Region Police Office has downgraded its alert status from full to heightened.

Superintendent Rhommel Miranda, the NCRPO public information chief, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that the downgrade took effect at 8 a.m. Thursday-- or a day after the unit raised its status to full alert.

Miranda said the downgrade was made after police intelligence units showed "no imminent threat" to Metro Manila.

NCRPO director, Chief Superintendent Roberto Rosales, insisted in an 11 a.m. interview Thursday that they had always been on heightened alert despite a press release on Wednesday that they raised the full alert.

The Metro Manila police went on heightened alert to prevent a spillover of the Mindanao bomb attacks to the metropolis.