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House stands firm in decision to not reduce PNP’s anti-criminality fund for 2018

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The House of Representatives stood firm in its decision to retain the Php 900-million budget for the Philippine National Police’s “Oplan Double Barrel” for 2018. For this, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Karlo Nograles junked the opposition’s argument that the money would be used to fund what they said was the police’s killing spree, noting instead that it was not the government’s policy to kill criminals in the first place. “As […]