Tag: Barangay Tanods

Duterte to consult Cabinet on proposal to arm barangay officials

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he would consult the Cabinet on his proposal to arm barangay chairpersons and tanods. “..Pero ang aking proposal no heavy firearm, shotgun lang..O mga tanod siguro ninyo, .22. Basta may panlaban lang,” Duterte said in a speech in Zamboanga del Sur. According to Duterte, the idea was to give the officials on the ground a role in the fight against criminality. “Kung bibigyan ko kayo ng armas, fight […]

Barangay tanods involved in “misencounter” placed under preventive suspension

(Eagle News)– Mandaluyong City Mayor Carmelita Abalos on Friday ordered the preventive suspension of barangay tanods in the misencounter in Mandaluyong that left two people dead. Abalos also questioned why the tanod were even armed in the first place. “Their duty is not to fire shots to anyone but to immediately report the incident to police officers for the conduct of an immediate and legitimate police operation,” she said, ordering the confiscation of the firearms. […]