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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — House Appropriation Committee Chairman Karlo Nograles said that the proposed salary increase for members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) will be easily passed in Congress. Nograles said that the members of the AFP and the PNP have proven that they are deserving of the increase when they ended the crisis in Marawi City. “Our men and women in uniform proved […]
(Eagle News) — Budget Secretary Ben Diokno on Friday announced his office’s proposal for a base pay hike for the military, police and other uniformed personnel has been approved by the Office of the President. In a statement, Diokno said the OP approval was made on Sept. 25, with the draft now endorsed to Congress. “We need the approval of both houses of Congress to implement this because Congress has the power of the purse,” […]
DUBAI, United Ararb Emirates (Reuters) — A flying motorcycle that can soar above traffic and be used in rescue scenarios is set to join the Dubai police force within 2 years, according to Brigadier Khaled Al Razooqi, Director General of Smart Services at Dubai Police. At their GITEX (Gulf Information & Technology Exhibition) exhibition space, Dubai police displayed the “hoverbike” among several advanced technologies they are introducing to their force. The single-seater electrically-powered bike – […]
by Nova SAFO Agence France-Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — In a diverse Chicago neighborhood where dozens of languages are spoken, two police officers are visiting a McDonald’s restaurant. They have a jug of coffee in hand and are offering a friendly ear, willing to listen to anyone who wants to have a chat. Welcome to “Coffee with a Cop” day, an initiative held Wednesday in Chicago and across the United States for police to […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French police arrested five people, including one on a terror watchlist after discovering a suspected home-made bomb in one of Paris’ most exclusive neighborhoods at the weekend, officials said. Police discovered two gas cylinders in the hallway of a building in the city’s western 16th district in the early hours of Saturday morning and two others on the pavement outside. A mobile phone attached to the cylinders is being investigated as […]
LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — More than 400 victims were taken to hospital after a mass shooting in Las Vegas which left 50 people dead, police said on Monday. Approximately 406 people were transported to area hospitals, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement which also put the toll from Sunday night’s shooting at 50. Police had previously said at least 50 people had been killed at the country music […]
By Anna Cui (EBC Las Vegas Bureau) Eagle News Service LAS VEGAS, United States (Eagle News) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Department sheriff said that the shooting in a Las Vegas open concert on Sunday that killed 50 people and wounded more than 400 others, was not a terrorist act, but was a single act of shooting by one man in what is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Sheriff Joseph […]
LOS, ANGELES, United States (AFP) – At least two people were killed and more than 20 wounded when a gunman went on a shooting spree on the Las Vegas Strip late Sunday, police and US media reports said. Police said that the shooter was taken “down” after officers swarmed over the famous boulevard following reports of multiple shots being fired from the Mandalay Bay casino. “At this time we do have a suspect down,” Las […]
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday criticized Interpol’s decision to admit the Palestinian Authority as a member, saying it would weaken the global police body’s anti-terror capabilities. “This decision will harm Interpol’s ability to fight international terror,” his office quoted him as saying a conference call with American Jewish leaders. “This is not a decision based on professional need. It is absolutely a political decision,” he told members of the Conference of Presidents of […]
(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 […]
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) — Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Friday assured the public President Rodrigo Duterte would not tolerate abuses on the part of policemen. Abella issued the pronouncement after the family of Kian Loyd delos Santos, 17, surfaced and disputed the account of policemen that he had fired at them when they were about to approach him as part of an anti-drug operation in Barangay 160 on Wednesday night. Delos Santos’ father Zaldy noted that […]
