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FOLLOWING the spate of robberies that hit Metro Cebu, the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) has given the Task Force Motorcycle (TFM) additional functions in the police's anti-crime campaign.
Aside from going after motorcycle-riding hoodlums, the task force will join in the conduct of checkpoints, saturation drive and intelligence gathering, said Senior Supt. Patrocinio Comendador Jr., chief of CCPO.
TFM is composed of at least 50 policemen and civillian volunteers
The task force was created in October last year when crimes perpetrated by persons riding motorcycles shot up.
Comendador said the task force will remain active despite the decrease of crime rate in Cebu City during the first six months of the year.
Comendador reacted to a newspaper report (not ) describing Cebu City as ?crime prone area? in Central Visayas.
The city police chief said the term ?crime prone? was misleading. He said it?s not surprising that Cebu City has the highest volume of crimes but only in some specific areas like Colon Street.
In a report presented by the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) in last Wednesday's Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) second quarter meeting, recorded 4,046 cases were recorded in Central Visayas for the January to June period this year.
Of that number, theft topped the list of crimes at 887 cases followed by physical injuries with 832 cases and murder with 219 cases.
The highest crime volume of 1,307 or 25.39 percent was registered in Cebu City, which also had the highest number of theft cases with 421, physical injuries with 231 and 216 robbery cases./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON
