Lowest crime volume recorded in Metro Manila during barangay, SK polls week

The election week has recorded the lowest crime volume in Metro Manila since the start of the Duterte administration, National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) director Chief Supt. Camilo Cascolan said on Friday.

Cascolan said from May 14 to 20, the NCRPO recorded 231 crime incidents including:

• murder, 21;
• homicide, 11;
• physical injury 38;
• rape, 15;
• robbery, 41; theft, 95;
• theft of motorcycles, nine; and
• theft of motor vehicles, one.

“Magmula po nang nagsimula ang administration ni Presidente Duterte, ito po ang pinakamababa sa lahat lahat,” Cascolan said in a press conference in Quezon City.

(Since the administration of President Duterte started, this is the lowest volume recorded of all the weeks.)

“’Yan po ngayon ang pinagmamalaki ng NCRPO [That is what the NCRPO is proud of], and we will assure you that we will continue to perform and enforce the law,” he added.

Cascolan attributed the decrease in crime volume in greater police visibility and enhance police operatons, especially in the capital’s most populous parts and major thoroughfares.

He said the Regional Mobile Force Battallion has been doing rounds in the NCRPO’s districts to hunt down motorcycle-riding suspects.

The NCRPO has also assigned bus marshalls along EDSA, Roxas Blvd., and Commonwealth Ave., and strengthened the region’s border control.

“Lahat po ng borders natin, sa mga airports sa mga maritime, sa dagat at saka pati ho sa mga boundary doon sa mga syudad at ng Region 4-A to NCR, Region 3 to NCR, at ang papuntang Bicol po, pinoproteksyunan po natin yan. Naglagay po tayo ng tinatawag natin na na border control na pulis,” Cascolan said.

(All our borders, our airports, our maritime borders, and our boundaries towards Region 4-A, Region 3, and Bicol, we are protecting that area. We have assigned police in-charge of border control.) /vvp