Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte expressed on Wednesday, Jan. 4, her full support to the call of Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos for Philippine National Police (PNP) senior officials to submit a “courtesy resignation” in line with the...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos, Jr. asked on Wednesday, Jan. 4, all police officials from the rank of full colonel up to generals to submit a courtesy resignation amid the controversy that hit the Philippine National Police (PNP) anew in...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is now conducting an investigation into how a police sergeant tagged in the P6.7 billion shabu bust in Manila two months ago was able to return to its drug enforcement unit. This, amid rumors that a ranking police official was the one who requested that Police...
Operatives of the Police Regional Office 7 (PRO7) confiscated more than P4 million worth of illegal drugs and arrested 100 people in a one-day anti-illegal drugs operations in Central Visayas. PRO7 director Brig. Gen. Roderick Augustus Alba said a total of 627 grams of shabu worth P4.2 million were...
Police forces in Central Visayas have confiscated more than P13 million worth of illegal drugs in just a span of one week following an intensified anti-illegal drugs campaign in the region. Police Brig. Gen. Roderick Augustus Alba, director of the Police Regional Office 7, said the series of...
Brig. Gen. Roderick Augustus Alba, director of the Police Regional Office 7, warned all policemen in Central Visayas that their entire unit would suffer if any of them is caught recycling confiscated illegal drugs. Alba issued the statement on Wednesday, Dec. 14, following the arrest of the head of...
Police have arrested three people who were tagged as responsible in the ambush that led to the death of two anti-illegal drug operatives in Mabalacat City, Pampanga. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the three suspects were collared in a follow-up...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) needs more manpower in order to become more effective and efficient in running after illegal drugs syndicates operating in the country, its former head said. As a multi-billion peso illegal operation, former PDEA director general Wilkins Villanueva said...
The criminal conviction handed down by the Caloocan City court against the police officers involved in former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs was a “sorrowful and partial victory,” Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Thursday, November 24. “We hail as sorrowful and partial...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has welcomed the conviction of a policeman for torture and planting of evidence in connection with the deaths of Carl Angelo Arnaiz and Reynaldo De Guzman in August 2017. PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr. issued the statement amid the shift of strategies in the...
A total of 26,244 barangays that were initially identified as illegal drugs affected were already cleared of drug influence, the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported on Tuesday, Nov. 22. PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr. said the drug-cleared barangays represent 74.23 percent of the total of...
The Bureau of Customs (BC) has further stepped up its information-sharing with government's anti-narcotics agencies to prevent the smuggling of chemical precursors in making shabu following the discovery of a new modus in the manufacture of illegal drugs during two separate raids in an exclusive...
