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(Eagle News) — Police Lt. Col. Jovie Espenido on Wednesday, Feb. 19, said “greedy” politicians were behind his inclusion in the drug list. Espenido did not say who exactly these were, but said these were the kinds of people “na nabangga natin” even when he was just P01. “But one thing I can tell you — greedy, a greedy kind of person,” he said in a nationally televised press conference following his inclusion. Espenido issued […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is considering returning the police into the government’s campaign against illegal drugs, after authorities noted a spike in drug-related crimes, including rape, robbery hold-ups, and murder. The President said that the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), which only has 2,000 officers, was incapable of doing the job. “Whether I like it or not, I have to return that power to the police,” he said in a speech on […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Philippine National Police to start an intense “internal cleansing” of its ranks, and to stop indiscriminate raids based on search warrants that are being done by cops at this time as he reorganizes the national police. In a late night press conference on Sunday (January 29) until the wee hours of Monday (January 30), the President also rejected the offer of PNP chief Director General Ronald […]
