She said the plan was devised by Col. Gilberto Tuzon, the city police director, to address the rising number of shooting incidents, which has already reached 41 since January.
The three zones will be supervised by the deputy city police director for administration, deputy city police director for operations, and the commander of the city mobile force battalion, she said.
“They will be tasked to lead the operations in these areas and focus more on the unsolved cases,” Perez said in an interview over local television show “Morning Hataw.”
She said the city’s eight police stations, which are situated in strategic areas within the 26 barangays, will be under the proposed zones.
Of the 41 shooting incidents, mostly perpetrated by motorcycle-riding gunmen, she said 22 are already considered solved, with eight cases filed in local courts.
Most of the cases involved personal circumstances and grudges while some were linked to illegal drugs.
She said the ongoing investigation on six of the 19 unsolved cases has made significant progress recently and could lead to the filing of charges against the suspects in the coming days.[]
Perez said the investigation units handling these cases are continuously monitoring their progress and collecting vital information from possible witnesses and family members, as well as possible footage captured by closed-circuit television cameras.[]
