CAMP BGEN OSCAR FLORENDO-Bank and pawnshop robbers, beware!

As part of last week’s Crime Prevention Week celebration, the Regional Anti-Bank Robbery Special Operations Task Force and the Regional Intelligence Division in Camp Florendo in San Fernando City launched anti-bank and pawnshop robbery handbook.

The 21-page handbook contains tips on how to counter robbery attempts, especially the modus operandi of various syndicates such as the notorious “Acetylene Gang.”

Senior Superintendent Romeo Espiritu, Task Force chief, said the handbook will make the Ilocos region “a dangerous place for robbers.”

“The Task Force developed the handbook to prevent robbery incidents in banks and pawnshops and to provide tips to clients and to our law enforcers,” Espiritu said.

Senior Superintendent Noli Taliño, the book’s editor, said the handbook is based on a careful evaluation of the past activities of the gang and the police’s counter measures.

The handbook will serve as guide not just for the local police, but also officials and employees of bank, pawnshop and financial establishments as well as the local government units and the community.

“For the past five years, robbery has been prevalent in Ilocos victimizing mostly banks and their clients, pawnshops, convenient stores and other similar establishments that resulted in financial breakdown of some of them,” Taliño said.

He said that most of the robbery incidents were perpetrated by the Acetylene Gang, which had gained notoriety not only in Ilocos but in the entire country.

“They have been very successful in most of their operations of their modus operandi. Their presence served as hindrance to the attainment of a sustainable peace and development throughout the country,” Taliño said.

Police authorities in Pangasinan and Ilocos Sur recently arrested two groups of the Acetylene Gang and recovered some of the equipment they use in their operations.

For his part, Ilocos police regional director Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said the publication of the handbook is another big step of enforcing laws, winning wars and touching people’s lives.

“I congratulate the people behind the publication of the handbook. The police value the support and assistance the Task Force provided, especially in investigation. Together we can do more, let us fight crime with knowledge,” Bataoil said. #

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