Marantan in a recent interview said they also have back up coming from the National Support Unit such as Special Action Force and Regional Mobile Force, including warm bodies from the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
" As I understand, the AFP suspended several aggressive operations to focus on the upcoming elections," Marantan said. He said they already defined all places where they can insert security personnel wherein some of these are going to provide security measures for the election paraphernalia.
" We are here to protect the more than one million voting population of Davao City," he said.
According to Marantan, Davao City is still in the green category as there are no election related incidents that have happened in the city so far.
Marantan assures the public that the police officers are ready to render their duties as the midterm election is nearing.
Marantan, meanwhile, said that a substantial number of PNP personnel are also deployed to provide security for all the campaign sorties of political rivals in the city.
Davao City Police chief Colonel Hansel Marantan