Camp BGen Efigenio C Navarro, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro-Operation Plan (OPLAN) Bolilyo in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro resulted in the arrest of 47 suspects while in engaging in illegal cockfighting in Brgy. Tayamaan, Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro on February 6, 2022, about 3:00 P.M.

Criminal Investigation Detection Group-Occidental Mindoro Provincial Field Unit served as the lead unit in the said operation, together with Mamburao Municipal Police Station.

Confiscated from their possession and control were one transparent plastic bag containing cash amounting to PhP 11,000.00; 27 fighting cocks; and two boxes containing sets of gaffs.

As of press time, the suspects are under the custody of Mamburao MPS, while CIDG-Occidental Mindoro PFU is still preparing documents for filing of a complaint to the provincial prosecutor’s office in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro.

“It’s truly a commendable accomplishment of CIDG Occidental Mindoro and Mamburao MPS for which I am very glad. It only depicts that OPLAN Bolilyo is working”, Police Brigadier General SIDNEY SULTAN HERNIA, Regional Director of Police Regional Office MIMAROPA, remarked.

“Hence, I direct all unit commanders to intensify more their operations against illegal cockfighting and other illegal gambling in the entire MIMAROPA Region with a large scale of arrests”, he added. -RPIO MIMAROPA