00:00Eight members of the Gun For Hire group were arrested in Cebu.
00:03Some members of the group are using minors for their crimes.
00:07The local government of Cebu City is open to implementing a city-wide curfew.
00:12Nina Oliverio of PTV Cebu reports in detail.
00:18Eight members of the Gun For Hire group were arrested after the authorities arrested them
00:22for their subsequent operations from January 17 to March 1 this year.
00:28According to PRO-7 Director Police Brigadier General Rodrigo Maranan,
00:32they also received a report that groups are using minors to be gunmen or lookouts.
00:58We don't know how we will rescue the minors involved in this.
01:02But still, we are calling on our barangay officials to implement the curfew for minors
01:10so that minors will not be used by syndicates.
01:14Cebu City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia assured that he will discuss this in their command conference this month
01:21with the local authorities.
01:24Because the barangays, they even have their own laws and ordinances regarding curfew.
01:27Some of them implement, some of them don't.
01:29But if there is a necessity that we have to implement a city-wide curfew,
01:34then that is something that we will have to discuss with the Philippine National Police
01:38and other law enforcement agencies in our next meeting.
01:43Those loose firearms are really in the black market.
01:47That's why we will continue to look for and recover those loose firearms.
01:52And we will check where they can buy them.
01:57Pier 07 assured that they will not stop the search and arrest of criminal groups
02:03from PTV Cebu, Ninang Rivero.
02:05For Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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