No threats to local candidates in Negros Occidental

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January 15, 2025
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A police officer mans the Commission on Elections' checkpoint in Talisay City, Negros Occidental during the start of the election period on Sunday, January 12, 2025. The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office reported that they have not found any threat to aspirants running for various positions across the province. (NOCPPO photo)
A police officer mans the Commission on Elections’ checkpoint in Talisay City, Negros Occidental during the start of the election period on Sunday, January 12, 2025. The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office reported that they have not found any threat to aspirants running for various positions across the province. (NOCPPO photo)

There is no threat so far against 737 local candidates who underwent assessment by the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) in connection with the May 12 elections.

Captain Judesses Catalogo, NOCPPO public information officer, said yesterday that they have not received requests for police security.

In case there is, the candidates have to submit it before the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

“It will be accorded with response. What the Philippine National Police does is assess the threat. If there is a possibility of an impending threat to an individual during the election period, an investigation will be conducted,” he added.

Catalogo said the deployment of security officers for the midterm elections was discussed during the Provincial Joint Security Control Center coordinating conference on January 11.

He said some areas will be manned by the Philippine Army and the Philippine Coast Guard, with the latter watching over polling precincts in small islands and those situated along coastlines.

“There was no discussion on a change in the level of security. We are all under the green category. We have no areas of concern in Negros Occidental,” he added.

Local government units under the green category are considered areas with no election-related security concerns.

Throughout the election period, January 12 to June 11, a gun ban is imposed nationwide, except for security forces and other individuals declared as exempted, among them prosecutors and judges. (PNA)

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