THE CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) ordered Monday the Southern Police District to examine the current deployment of its men and find out why no policemen engaged two armed men who robbed a Chinese-Filipino family on Nov. 1 despite the fact that Metro Manila policemen were on full alert.

At the same time, Director Roberto Rosales, NCRPO chief, directed the Parañaque City police, where the robbery took place, to form teams for the conduct of a manhunt operation against the two armed men.

He also ordered them to coordinate with the Manila Police District for the robbers? immediate arrest.

On Sunday, All Saints? Day, two armed men on a motorcycle fired upon the occupants of a van as they were waiting for the traffic light to change at an intersection on the Roxas Boulevard service road.

The robbers then forced open the vehicle?s doors, took the victims? belongings and fled.

The victims were identified as Ruben and Joslyn Chua, their son Denzel and Joslyn?s mother, Clarita. The couple and Clarita suffered one gunshot wound each while Denzel was unhurt because Ruben covered him with his body.

The three were rushed to a hospital by a security guard and a taxi cab driver.

Meanwhile, Rosales reiterated his order for police district heads and police chiefs to increase their visibility in shopping malls, transport terminals, major thoroughfares, busy intersections, and other places where people gather.

He also called on his men to step up their monitoring of people riding tandem in motorcycles as part of the NCRPO?s anticriminality campaign.