Tag: PNP
With video: President Duterte says rogue cops to be sent to Basilan to fight Abu Sayyaf
https://youtu.be/WZFne178mZU (Eagle News) – More than 200 of the 300 rogue cops who are facing various administrative and criminal charges were turned over to Malacanang on Tuesday (February 7) where they received a severe scolding from President Rodrigo Duterte who told them they would be sent to Basilan in two weeks’ time. There, they would stay there for two years to fight the Abu Sayyaf, and other insurgents. A visibly very angry and disappointed President Duterte faced the […]
Duterte bars NBI from enforcing drug laws, to issue EO on drug menace as natl security threat
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte announced that even the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) would be barred from conducting illegal drug operations, saying he had already lost his trust in the agency. He also said that he was going to sign an executive order that would elevate the problem of illegal drugs into a “national security threat” so that the military could legally come into the picture and suppress it. During a speech […]
Cops paid assassins to kill drug suspects, says Amnesty Int’l report on police abuses in drug war
(Eagle News) — Amnesty International has revealed incidents where policemen in the Philippines pay officers and assassins to kill drug suspects, plant evidence and even set up an alleged racket with funeral homes who pay for each dead body sent to them. The international rights group investigated 33 incidents of drug-related killings in 20 cities and towns across the Philippines in which 59 people were killed, mostly poor people. The Amnesty report, which followed an […]
DND chief says NPA ceasefire termination won’t affect AFP
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Delfin Lorenzana said the ceasefire termination declared by the New People’s Army (NPA) would have “no effect” at all on the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In a statement, Lorenzana also said the NPA rebels themselves, even during the ceasefire, continued their ambushes and kidnapping of soldiers. “If the CPP-NPA (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army) will terminate or stop their unilateral ceasefire it is up to […]
Culture of corruption in PNP is serious, says Duterte; orders military to arrest abusive cops
MANILA, Philippine (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines to arrest corrupt and abusive policemen, saying that the culture of corruption in the current Philippine National Police was “very serious.” He said he personally would reorganize the police force, addressing newly promoted generals in Malacanang on Tuesday, January 31. “Let me reorganize the enforcement diyan sa drugs sa police. In the meantime, they would be arrested and I […]
SC issues writ of amparo, protection order to kin of “Tokhang” victims in QC
https://youtu.be/Bkofegx3Lxc (Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has issued a writ of amparo, with a temporary protection order (TPO), to the relatives of four victims allegedly killed in “Oplan Tokhang” operations last year by the Philippine National Police in Payatas, Quezon City. In an en banc session Tuesday, January 31, the high court issued the protection order that bars respondent policemen from entering within a kilometer radius of the petitioners. The respondent police officers […]
Duterte orders internal cleansing of PNP, police drug war halted
(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 […]
PNP relieves cops in CCTV shown in Senate inquiry pending probe
(Eagle News) – The 10 police officers seen on a CCTV video shown by Senator Panfilo Lacson during the “tokhang for ransom” senate inquiry had been relieved. Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald dela Rosa himself ordered the relief of the cops seen on video allegedly planting “shabu” during a raid in an office last October. PNP National Capital Region Police Office (PNP-NCRPO) Director Oscar Albayalde said the 10 policemen were members of […]
Cops in Korean businessman’s kidnap-slay to “suffer,” President Duterte assures South Korea
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte vowed he would not let criminal cops who had tainted the integrity of the national police off the hook, as he stressed that the cops responsible for the kidnap-slaying of a Korean businessman would “suffer.” The President on Thursday apologized to the South Korean government and all its citizens for what happened to South Korean businessman Jee Ick-Joo who had been abducted and killed by certain policemen from the […]
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Video of cops planting shabu shown: Police crimes not isolated, says Sen. Lacson
(Eagle News) — Police excesses and crimes are not isolated incidents, according to Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday, when he showed CCTV footages of cops planting drugs and stealing from their victims during an actual alleged police raid. During a senate inquiry on “tokhang for ransom,” Lacson, chair of the senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs which is conducting the probe, showed video evidence against rogue cops. The video footage showed the […]
