Police willing to help agri firms, other businesses in Mindanao stop NPA harassment

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) has offered the agriculture and mining industries, as well as other big businesses on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao to help stop the various forms of harassment being perpetrated by communist rebels.

In a closed-door meeting between the PNP’s Directorate for Integrated Police Operations (DIPO) in Western and Eastern Mindanao and the industries’ private security forces, authorities introduced a scheme called “Adopt Your Police Station Program,” which will deploy adequate police forces to areas being threatened by the rebels.