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(Eagle News) — More than two hundred policemen may soon face the ax after the National Police Commission found they may have cheated in the entrance examination and submitted fake documents to enter the police service. In a radio interview, Napolcom vice chairman Rogelio Casurao said more than 200 policemen had the same right and wrong answers, a “statistical improbability.” Others who have been serving for “10 years, 15 years” submitted fake documents to enter the force […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police (PNP) implemented “Oplan Saklolo” in Quezon Province as many areas in the province experienced heavy flooding, leaving many residents stranded. According to Philippine National Police (PNP) Quezon Spokesman Chief Inspector Elena Eleazar, many roads in the Quezon province are now not passable due to severe flooding. “Sa Padre Burgos, meron na po tayong naitalang dalawang barangay na baha na po. At sa Bitogo, tatlong barangay […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said on Tuesday that a second DNA test on the body found in Gapan, Nueva Ecija on September 5 was underway. In a radio interview, Aguirre said he would ask the National Bureau of Investigation to do this. According to Aguirre, although many court decisions give a lot of weight on DNA test results, “there are instances these are discredited if the procedure was wrong or if […]
CHR to issue request “one more time” (Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government said on Friday that President Rodrigo Duterte has thumbed down the Commission on Human Rights request to view police case folders on supposed extrajudicial killings. “Yes. It’s something like that,” DILG officer-In-charge Catalino Cuy said in a chance interview when asked if Duterte would heed the CHR’s request. He said he already informed CHR Chairman Chito Gascon […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said that he would ask President Rodrigo Duterte’s permission before furnishing the Commission on Human Rights the case folders on those who were killed in the administration’s war on drugs. Dela Rosa said that while the PNP would cooperate with the CHR, which is looking into the deaths, it still needs the President’s permission because all investigations into drug-related killings […]
(Eagle News) — Nanawagan ang Armed Forces of the Philippines sa Philippine National Police na paimbestigahang mabuti ang nangyaring insidente sa Zamboanga City kung saan isang sundalo na galing sa Marawi City ang napatay ng mga pulis. Ayon kay AFP Spokesperson BGen.Restituto Padilla, nais nilang mabigyang linaw ang insidente dahil nagdulot umano ito ng galit sa mga sundalo na kasamahan ng biktima. Base umano sa initial report na nakarating sa AFP, nag-aabang ng masasakyan ang […]
(Eagle News) — Soldiers and police personnel have retaken the Marawi police station three months after it was seized by Islamist extremists led by the so-called Maute group in Marawi City when they first attacked the city on May 23. PNP chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said he was “happy” with this development as he announced the good news during his speech at the 116th PNP Day celebration at Camp Kangleon in Palo, Leyte, […]
At least 100 enlisted and non-commissioned female personnel coming from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police will be deployed to Marawi City. AFP public affairs chief Colonel Edgard Arevalo said the deployment of an all-female group of military and police is to give a “feminine touch” to the ongoing crisis in Marawi City. He also said the battle area is predominantly male already so the Armed Forces and the PNP […]
(Eagle News) — Seventeen-year-old Kian delos Santos died of two gunshot wounds in the head. This was according to the results of the autopsy performed by the Philippine National Police Crime Lab on the Grade 11 student, who was killed in a supposed anti-drug operation in Caloocan days ago. The results contradict the findings of the Public Attorneys Office, which said that the boy had died of three gunshots–two in the head and one […]
(Eagle News) — Two of the three police officers believed involved in the killing of Kian delos Santos in an anti-drug operation in Caloocan last week have admitted it was the 17-year-old they were holding in footage from the barangay’s closed-circuit television camera. “Inamin ng dalawang pulis na sila nga daw ang nakaakbay kay Kian at si Kian ang nasa video, taliwas sa kanilang unang sinasabi na yun ay informant,” Internal Affairs Service Inspector General Alfegar […]
(Eagle News) — Seven government soldiers were injured following an improvised explosive device explosion in Marawi City, with two of the injured men most likely to undergo amputations because of the incident, an army official said. According to Western Mindanao Command Chief Lieutenant General Carlito Galvez, the seven soldiers were wounded while they were doing the clearing operations in the war-torn city. “We have seven wounded and I believe ‘yung dalawa most probably mapuputulan […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police will look into the simultaneous overnight drug raids that left 21 people killed in Bulacan recently. Quoting PNP spokesperson Dionardo Carlos, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the PNP-Internal Affairs Service investigation was “a matter of procedure.” “The arresting officers claimed they were met with armed resistance while conducting said enforcement operations,” he said. He said the “wide-ranging” raids coincided with Bulacan’s 439th foundation day. Senior Superintendent Romeo Caramat […]
