MANILA, Philippines?The Philippine National Police is concentrating on three regions in Mindanao as part of its efforts to rescue Irish priest Michael Sinnott from his kidnappers, according to Police Director Felizardo Serapio Jr. of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operations in Western Mindanao.

Serapio said the Philippine National Police has created a task force, composed of three task groups based in the three regions, to oversee Sinnott's rescue.

Serapio also said the PNP is preparing the sketches of the kidnappers, since there were two witnesses to the incident.

According to him, there were indications that the group responsible for the deed was based in central Mindanao, although he refused to name the suspected organization because of the sensitive nature of the situation.

The regions where the operatives are focusing are the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Region 9 or Western Mindanao and Region 12 or Central Mindanao, Serapio said.

?We expanded the organization into three areas so we will be a task force. For every area there is a task group, but the main effort here would be [from] the Zamboanga Del Sur PPO [police provincial office],? Serapio told reporters in the House of Representatives, where police officials attended the budget hearing of the Department of Interior and Local Government.

Sinnott, a member of the Missionary Society of St. Columban, was snatched outside his home in Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur on Sunday night.

Armed men forced him into a pickup truck and drove him to the beach. He was then taken aboard a speedboat.

Serapio said that as of Monday morning, there was no communication from Sinnott's kidnappers.