MANILA, Philippines -- (UPDATE) Some 100 Marines on board seven six by six trucks were stopped by police in Bacoor town, Cavite province, due to a "miscoordination and miscommunication," officials said.

Major General Ben Dolorfino, Marine Corps Commandant and Senior Superintendent Fidel Posadas, Cavite police director, described the incident as a “miscoordination and miscommunication” between the police and the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

The troops, all students of the Marine Basic Airborne Course, were on their way to their Fort Bonifacio headquarters from the Marine Base in Ternate town, Cavite province when they were stopped at around 9:50 a.m., said Dolorfino.

"It was a miscoordination. They were stopped only briefly," Dolorfino said.

The police that stopped the soldiers were not informed of their movement, which was approved by general headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Dolorfino told reporters.

Posadas confirmed this, saying that military headquarters failed to inform them about the convoy of military trucks carrying 171 members of the Philippine Marines and Special Action Force.

Posadas said he ordered his men to immediately let the military convoy go after he verified that it was an authorized troop movement.

“They said they were on their way to Fort Bonifacio for an airborne training. The problem is that the military headquarters did not inform us of any troop movement,” he said in a mobile phone interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Posadas said he ordered the setting up of checkpoints in Cavite after the local police office in Ternate town reported that several trucks carrying soldiers left the Marine Base in the town at around 7:30 a.m.

Suspecting that the troop movement was irregular, Posadas said he instructed his men to check on all the passengers of the military trucks.

“It was just a case of miscoordination and miscommunication,” he added.

Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Caculitan, Philippine Navy spokesman, said the movement of the troops reached only the regional police headquarters, not the Cavite provincial headquarters.

"It was an authorized troop movement," he reiterated.

From Fort Bonifacio, the Marines will proceed to Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija province for the airborne portion of their course, Caculitan said.

Twenty-seven policemen, who are taking the same course, were stopped together with the Marines, he added.