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(Eagle News)–Around 16,000 policemen will be deployed in Metro Manila to secure the May 13 polls. In a statement, National Capital Region Police Office director Guillermo Eleazar said more are also on standby for any eventualities. “The highest level of readiness is expected in all police offices and units,” he said. He said he has “guided all NCRPO police officers to act in accordance with their mandate and conscience – to be above political affairs, […]
(Eagle News)—-Authorities have vowed to go after those violating rules and regulations as the campaign period for local candidates kicks off today, Friday, March 29. National Capital Region Police Office director Guillermo Eleazar said they would “increase the frequency of checkpoints in the metropolis to help deter criminal minds in executing their evil designs,” as “local election campaign periods have shown traditionally, that there is more conflict and tension in the air.” Eleazar also reminded […]
(Eagle News)–Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Thursday, March 7, defended National Capital Region Police Office chief Guillermo Eleazar, saying his outburst against an erring policeman was “understandable” and merely a “manifestation of frustration.” “It was a classic case of a ‘father losing his cool over his son’s behavior’ with the goal of correcting it and sending a message to his other children that bad behavior will not be tolerated in his household,” Año said. Instead, […]
(Eagle News)—-Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Thursday, March 7, defended National Capital Region Police Office director Guillermo Eleazar for his outburst against a policeman who was caught extorting from a drug suspect in exchange for the dropping of charges against him. In a television interview, Albayalde said Eleazar only lost his temper in front of Corporal Marlo Siblao Quibete, whose group allegedly extorted P80,000 and a motorcycle from the suspect, because Quibete did what […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, March 6, said he was backing National Capital Region Police Office chief Guillermo Eleazar. Duterte issued the statement after a visibly irate Eleazar gave the Eastern Police District’s P02 Marlo Quibete, who had been arrested after his group allegedly extorted P80,000 from the live-in partner of a drug suspect, and took their motorcycle in exchange for the dropping of drug charges against him, a tongue-lashing before the media as he held […]
(Eagle News)—The legal division of the Bureau of Immigration has recommended the filing of a deportation case against the Chinese national behind the taho-throwing incident at a Metro Rail Transit 3 station. Immigration spokesperson Dana Sandoval said the case for “posing a risk to public interest, in violation of immigration laws” against Zhang Jiale, 23, can be pursued even without a complainant. She said this was because there were already pictures that showed Zhang throwing […]
(Eagle News) — The National Capital Region Police Office has downgraded the full alert status declared in Metro Manila following the Jolo, Sulu twin blasts that killed at least 23 people. In a statement, NCRPO head Guillermo Eleazar said the downgrading to a heightened status was effective today, Feb. 7. Eleazar made the announcement a day after Philippine National Police spokesperson Senior Supt. Bernard Banac said the Jolo blasts case was “solved” following the identification […]
(Eagle News) — National Capital Region Police Office chief Guillermo Eleazar on Wednesday, Jan. 30, dismissed as a hoax a social media post that said an SM branch would be bombed by the Abu Sayyaf if mall officials did not pay $15 million. According to Eleazar, the message which came from a certain Kyla Avonahceh, was “obviously too casual and carefree in the face of a very serious and extremely scary threat.” He recalled what he […]
(Eagle News)–National Capital Region Police Office Director Guillermo Eleazar has relieved the entire anti-drug unit of the Las Pinas police. Eleazar made the move to relieve the more than 30 police officers, including the unit chief, after some operatives allegedly demanded money in exchange for the release of a drug suspect. Operatives of the Southern Police District failed to arrest the four policemen involved in the crime in an entrapment operation, but managed to nab […]
(Eagle News)—Around 4000 Metro Manila policemen will be deployed to Luneta, Manila where several groups are expected to gather to commemorate the 46th anniversary of martial law declaration in the country. In a statement, National Capital Region Police Office Director Guillermo Eleazar added his men would exercise maximum tolerance towards the rallyists. “Filipinos are one in our advocacy for a democratic country that all are treated fairly and justly,” Eleazar said. “The entire police force […]
(Eagle News) — The police on Friday, Aug. 24, arrested a Taiwanese national after seizing around P40 million worth of suspected shabu in a raid in his hotel room in Manila. According to the police, the six kilograms of suspected shabu had been placed in seven plastic bags in the room of Chong Chin Hao in the hotel on P. Mapua St. in Binondo. Authorities also recovered drug paraphernalia inside a suitcase in the room, […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the promotion of National Capital Region Police Office Chief Guillermo Eleazar as police director. In his letter to Eduardo Año, officer in charge of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, Duterte said that the approval was based on an endorsement of the chairman of the Civil Service Commission and the National Police Commission, and “in conjunction with” Republic Act 6975, which places the PNP under the […]
