PNP-ARMM to host sports for peace with stakeholders

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=822642
• Tuesday, November 3, 2015

(PNA), FPV/NYP/EOF

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao, Nov. 3 (PNA) -- Police officials in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will gather its officers and men to engage in sports activities with stakeholders of peace this month, a police official on Tuesday said.

Chief Supt. Ronald R. Estilles, police regional director, said the PNP-ARMM officers and personnel will play golf, badminton, volleyball and law tennis with the personnel from the Armed Forces, local government units and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in a friendly competition.

"Our aim is to help maintain peace and order in the region by playing non-contact sports with all peace stakeholders," Estilles said in a statement.

The “Sports for Peace” will run from November 12-16, 2015 at Camp Brigadier General Salipada K Pendatun, Parang, Maguindanao.

Estilles said this program basically aims to promote sportsmanship camaraderie with the AFP, LGU/CSO of Sultan Kudarat and Parang Municipalities, MILF and other stakeholders of peace within the area of ARMM.

ARMM is composed of the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.

Estilles said the participation of the MILF will show that former protagonists have shifted the battle ground to sports ground where no blood shed takes place but only physical development of participants.

He explained that it being a sports for peace, non contact games will be played.