Troopers of the 6th Regional Mobile Group have temporarily beefed up policemen and militiamen manning the Community Police Assistance Center in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, after it was raided by New People’s Army rebels last week.

Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, yesterday said he will meet with military officials to discuss the security arrangement of the COMPAC outpost in Brgy. Vito, Sagay, and the deployment of troops in northern Negros, following the arrival of Army’s 15th Infantry Battalion.

The New People’s Army Roselyn Jean Pelle Command has claimed responsibility for the raid and the disarming of two paramilitary men assigned at the police assistance center in Sagay City.

Police investigation showed that the rebel raiders fled on board a pump boat and carted away two M-14 rifles, police uniforms and combat boots.

Sagay police investigators noted an apparent similarity in the pumpboat used in the attack of a marine sanctuary outpost at Maca Reef last year also in Sagay City, and in the raid of the police assistance center.

Despite the rebel admission, Franco said they are also looking into others angles.

A team of investigators from the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office will be dispatched to Sagay City, to conduct a separate probe of the incident, Franco said.*GPB

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