WV has 8 cases of election-related violence
If the number of violent incidents would be the basis for employing the security measures this elections, it would seem that Iloilo Province and Iloilo City will get the lion share of police personnel who will be deployed this May 10.
Police Regional Office 6 director, Police Chief Superintendent Isagani Cuevas, said there are five cases of election-related violent incidents (ERVIs) in Iloilo Province and another three cases of ERVIs in Iloilo City .
In Iloilo Province , the ERVIs involved the shooting of Brgy. Kagawad Arsenio Flaviano on February 13 in Brgy. Loong, Concepcion; burning by suspected CPP/NPA members of the tractor owned by mayoralty candidate Ligaya Apura on February 18 in Brgy. Pacuan, Lemery; disarming of PNP members by incumbent Vice Mayor Peter Paul Lopez, Brgy. Captain Eugenio Eusebio Lopez and 14 civilians on April 11 at Brgy Bacagay, San Dionisio; disarming of PNP members by suspected CPP/NPA on Brgy. Agcalaga, Calinog; and, throwing of grenade in front of the house of Mayoralty candidate Rene Cordero in corner Aclaro and Cudilla Sts., Brgy. Bulaqueña, Estancia.
The three ERVIs in Iloilo City include the shooting of Luis Mondia Jr, a mayoralty candidate in Pulupandan, Negros Occidental, in front of Jaro Cathedral on February 17, and the two separate incidents of grenade explosion in front of bakeshop owned by the family Mayor Jerry Treñas in Brgy. Dungon A., Jaro and on March 23 in front of the house of Francis Treñas, a brother of Mayor Treñas, in Brgy. Taal , Molo.
There is no reported ERVI in five other provinces and Bacolod City .
Cuevas said Iloilo Province will initially get more than 500 police personnel to augment the security in polling places and for other police operations.
Except for Iloilo City and Bacolod City , other police provincial officers will also receive augmentation force for this election.
“Our deployment of additional police personnel for election duties will be on May 3,” he revealed. (FB Lindero Jr)
