PATROL CARS. Five units of Patrol Cars for the Bangsamoro Police Regional Office (BPRO). (Credit MILG)
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BARMM Government Provides 5 Patrol Cars to Bangsamoro PNP Regional Office

September 6, 2022
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         COTABATO CITY (SDN) — The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) continued its provision for its partners in the peace and security of the region.
Interior Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo. (Photo: SDN — Science and Digital News)
         It’s a critical need of the region — peace and security — what with the BARMM communities among, if not the most, conflict-affected areas (CAAs) in the Philippines. Over 40 years of internecine conflict, Filipinos against Filipinos, during the war for independence waged by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) from the 1970 to 2014, thereabouts, more or less.

         The territory of the Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the 63 SGA villages that voted “yes” in a plebiscite in January and February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.

Its population per the Philippine Atlas as of 2020 census is 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur.

Read: PNP in BARM has New Home; Declaration of Support Inked

To this end of achieving, maintaining, and preserving peace and security, the Philippine National Police (PNP) through the Bangsamoro Police Regional  Office (BPRO) is a major partner. The BPRO is based at Camp Salipada K. Pendatun, Parang, Maguindanao.

And as observed in the recent past, the BARMM government is not remiss in providing for the BPRO, whether building PNP Stations, or providing patrol vehicles.

Read: MILG to Build New HQ Building for Bangsamoro PNP

Of which the the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG) headed by Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo is the main provider. The MILG had already built PNP Stations in some Bangsamoro communities and donated patrol vehicles for the BPRO.

Credit:; MILG

“Dividends of peace” for BARMM communities

        Sinarimbo, also the BARMM spokesperson, is making sure of a fruitful partnership with the BPRO.

        “We received initial delivery of five units of Police Car as part of the program of the Bangsamoro Government funded thru our Ministry. This will soon be delivered to the recipient institution which is the Police Regional Office in the Bangsamoro,” the MILG minister announced the other day.
         “The procurement of police cars is just among the many support provided by the Bangsamoro Government to the PNP in the Bangsamoro to improve its capacity to protect and secure its constituents. Apart from this, Municipal Police Stations are also currently being built across the region including a new Regional Headquarters building in Camp Salipada K. Pendatun, Parang, Maguindanao.”
         Earlier, Sinarimbo said the construction of infrastructures in the Bangsamoro component areas forms part of the “dividends of peace” from the implementation of the CAB forged by the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the MILF on March 27, 2014.
         The “dividends of peace” being implemented by the MILG include Municipal Halls, Municipal Police Stations, Public Markets, Public Terminals, Tourism Centers, Barangay Halls, Water Desalination Facilities, Installation or Improvement of Water Systems, and others.
         Many of these projects have already been completed and turned over to beneficiary local government units (LGUs), others are being built, still others are in the planning stage. — EKU (✓)

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