Four police officers are facing dismissal proceedings after being linked to cases of indiscriminate firing during the New Year celebration, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Friday, Jan. 2. Police Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr., acting PNP chief, ordered a thorough investigation...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Police Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio I. Peñones Jr., Police Regional Office-3 chief, on Tuesday reiterated the strict enforcement of the one-strike policy against indiscriminate firing on New Year’s Eve. Peñones stressed that reckless or celebratory gunfire has no place in a...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – The Police Regional Office-1 warned police officers in the Ilocos region against indiscriminate firing to welcome the New Year. PRO-1 Director Police Brig. Gen. Dindo R. Reyes said violators will be dealt with firmly and will carry the highest level of accountability....
ILOILO CITY – A 25-year-old woman was wounded in an indiscriminate firing incident in Pavia town, Iloilo province on Christmas Day. She was the first victim of indiscriminate firing in the province this holiday season. The victim sustained a bullet wound in the left leg after her 37-year-old...
ILOILO CITY – An off-duty cop is facing multiple criminal charges after firing his gun and beating up an individual during a Christmas party in Estancia town, northern Iloilo province. The Police Regional Office-6 announced that the police officer, whose name was withheld, is facing charges of...
Police arrested a 38-year-old man for indiscriminate firing in Barangay Lower Bicutan in Taguig on Nov. 5. The Taguig police identified the suspect as Harry Plan, a resident of the barangay. Plan’s mother, Merlita, called the Philippine National Police hotline 911 to report that her son fired...
TACLOBAN CITY -- A police officer from the Lavezares, Northern Samar Municipal Police Station was relieved Monday for illegally discharging his firearm during a fiesta, Police Brig. Gen. Jason Capoy, director of the Police Regional Office-8, said. The police officer, a master sergeant,...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested a security guard for indiscriminate firing on New Year’s Eve in Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo province. The Barotac Nuevo Municipal Police Station said the 26-year-old security guard fired his gun towards the No Parking sign of a business establishment in Barangay...
PNP chief Police General Rommel Francisco Marbil (Courtesy of PNP) A few days ahead of the New Year’s celebration, there have been 15 cases of indiscriminate firing across the country, the Philippine National Police (PNP) disclosed on Monday, Dec. 30. The PNP said six cases were recorded in...
(File photo) An enlisted personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is in danger of losing his job after allegedly firing his service gun indiscriminately while on a drinking session with his buddies in Manila before dawn Tuesday, June 18. PCG spokesperson Rear Adm. Armando Balilo identified the...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Wednesday, Feb. 21, said it will cooperate with the Philippine National Police (PNP) after one of its personnel allegedly went amok and engaged in a shooting spree in Naic, Cavite. Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan, PCG commandant, directed the Coast Guard Internal...
SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan – Two persons were wounded when a 32-year-old man allegedly fired his gun to welcome the New Year in Barangay Longos Central, this town, before dawn on Monday, January 1. MAP of San Fabian, Pangasinan. The suspect was identified as Keempee Serran Marcella of Barangay...
