THE Philippine National Police (PNP) will deploy more than 300 Special Action Force (SAF) commandos to Negros island after a reported series of civilian killings.

PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said on Monday that this was to "augment local police units in anti-criminality and internal security operations against criminal elements, terrorists operating in the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental."

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