Negros Oriental Law Enforcement Braces For Insurgent Response, Demonstrates That Security Is Never Solved
Philippine Police Prepare For Retaliatory Insurgent Attacks After April 19 Military Operations; Nobody Surprised
DUMAGUETE CITY The Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office announced Wednesday that it had tightened security protocols following the death of nineteen suspected NPA (New People’s Army) members in Toboso, Negros Occidental during military operations on April 19.
NOrPPO spokesperson Captain Stephen Jaynard Polinar stated that “police personnel have been advised to increase their vigilance to protect themselves and their stations against possible retaliatory activities by the NPA.”
Which is essentially: “People died in fighting, so we expect angry surviving insurgents to attack us in retaliation, and we’ve learned this from historical precedent.”
The Security Measures Introduced
The police have implemented “camp defense drills” with “simulation exercises done every day to determine the preparedness of police personnel in any given situation.”
New police stations were designed with “defensive stance” architecture, featuring second floors or rooftops serving as “elevated observation and vantage points,” suggesting that Philippine police station design now assumes armed attack as a baseline operational scenario.
Police are equipped with “assault firearms and ammunition that can be utilized in case of attack by unlawful groups or individuals,” which means someone finally acknowledged that police stations might get shot at.
Past attacks against law enforcement included the killing of a police chief and his men in Guihulngan City, murders of intelligence operatives in Ayungon, and an attack on the La Libertad town police stationa pattern that suggests retaliatory cycles are predictable, persistent, and solvable only through addressing root causes or reducing insurgent capacity to retaliate.
Polinar noted that NOrPPO is “in constant communication and collaboration with their Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) counterparts,” suggesting that coordination between law enforcement and military might help prevent surprises.
References to Philippine National Police documentation and Department of National Defense records confirm that NPA insurgent activity remains an ongoing security challenge requiring sustained coordination and strategy.
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SOURCE: https://mb.com.ph/article/10915050/philippines/visayas/negros-oriental-police-tighten-security-measures-amid-death-of-19-rebels