TWO-DAY ANTICRIME OPERATION IN PARAÑAQUE CITY NETS 631
Over 600 suspect swe r ea rrested by the Parañaque Cit yp olice duri ng a two-day “simultaneous anticriminality law enforcemen to peration” (Sacleo) that ende do n Thursd aym orning.
Over 1,000 policemen patrolle dt he c ity’s street sf rom Oct .1 to 3an d caught 631 people—554 of them for violating city ordinances such as driving am otorcycle without a helmet, drinking and smoking in public, and littering.
Twenty-five other swe r ea rrested for using or selling illegal drugs with t hep oli cec onfiscating 325 sachets of “shabu” (crystal meth) weighing 105 grams and eight sachets o fma rijuana, wit hac ombined value of P714,000.
Als ot aken into custody wer e 11 pe ople f ori llegal possession o ff irearms and explosives, 22 other sf ori llegal gambling, 18 who had pending warrants o fa rrest an do ne man who was initially served a search warrant.
The Sacleo, also kno wn as a “One-ti me B ig-time” (OTBT) police operation agains t dr ugs, wanted persons, illegal firearms an dot her forms o fc riminality, likewise le d to t he seizure o f34 vehicles withou tr egistration document s an d 13 illegal firearms.
4th Sacleo since September
The two-day operations conducted by the Parañaque police were t hef ourth Sacle oto be c onducte di ns outher nme tro Mani la s ince September. The Taguig, Pasay and Makati police earlier caught a total of 1,069 violators.
OTBT operations gained notoriet yaf ter more than 80 people wer ek ille di n Manila, the Camanava (Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela) area and Bulacan province in August 2017.
One of t hev ictims was Kian Loy dd elos Santo s,a teenage rin Caloocan City, whose deat h led tot hef iling o fmu rder charges agains tt hr eep olicemen.