Police units get posters of 'wanted' list

The Police Regional Office-7 yesterday distributed to all police units and stations in Central Visayas posters of notorious bank robbers.

Police Senior Supt. Carmelo Valmoria, chief of the regional operations and plans division of PRO-7, has ordered the provincial and city police directors in the region to display the posters in police units and stations.

This is to alert each police unit on "notorious robbers that are possibly here in Cebu and other provinces, in hiding, and who could have already victimized people."

The order came after the Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Branch of the Cebu City Police Office received intelligence report that one of the members of the Mindanao Group believed to be behind the Philippine National Bank robbery in its Cainta, Rizal branch last week was reportedly sighted in Cebu.

CIIB chief, Supt. Paul Labra II earlier said that one of the suspects in the cartographic sketches has a pending case.

He even has a copy of the warrant of arrest of the previous case, but refused to divulge the name of the accused, saying that the report on the alleged presence of the suspect still has to be validated.

Some members of the Mindanao Group are allegedly former members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

The PRO-7 also ordered different police units to adopt precautionary measures that would preempt any plans of robbery, particularly banks, in the region. - Gregg M. Rubio