Policemen wear black arm bands as they check on passing vehicles at a checkpoint in Barangay Dalingaoen, Pikit town, North Cotabato on Jan.

29, 2015. Policemen all over the country are wearing black arm bands to mourn the death of 44 of their colleagues who died in the Jan.

25 fighting in Mamasapano town, Maguindanao.

MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo