The Philippine National Police (PNP) released on Wednesday, Dec. 6, the photos of the two persons of interest in the Marawi City bombing that left at least four people dead and several others injured. Police said the photo above is Kadapi Mimbesa, one of the two persons of interest in the bombing...
BUTUAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-13 reported on Wednesday that the crime rate in the Caraga region went down by 30 percent due to a strengthened and aggressive anti-crime campaign. PRO-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Kirby John B. Kraft said index and non-index crimes in Caraga dropped by...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva said on Monday, Dec. 4, that the kind of thinking of those behind the bombing inside the Mindanao State University (MSU) that killed four people has no place in an orderly society. "Kaya (That's why) we strongly condemn in the highest form of...
Operatives of the Northern Police District's (NPD) Caloocan City Police Station (CCPS) seized P414,800 worth of alleged shabu and arrested one suspect in a buy-bust operation in Caloocan City on Monday, Dec. 4. Photo from NPD PIO Police identified the suspect as alias “Niño,” 30, a...
President Marcos has extended the tour of duty of Police General Benjamin Acorda, Jr. as chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP). Sources said Acorda himself announced the extension during the command conference with top PNP officials at Camp Crame in Quezon City on Monday morning, Dec. 4....
MARAWI CITY – The Philippine National Police has created a Special Investigation Task Group to investigate the explosion in a Mindanao State University gymnasium that killed four persons on Sunday, December 3. PNP chief Police Brig. Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. said the SITG is led by Lanao del Sur...
Two men were arrested by the Taguig police in a buy-bust operation on Sunday, Dec. 3. Personnel from the Taguig police’s Drug Enforcement Unit arrested the suspects, identified only as alias Roman, 35, and alias Mark, 42, on MLQ Street, Purok 4 in Barangay Lower Bicutan. The suspected shabu...
Police forces in the entire Mindanao were placed on Sunday, Dec. 3, under highest security alert status following the bombing inside the Marawi City campus of the Mindanao State University that left at least four people dead. On the other hand, all police units under the National Capital...
A suspected drug pusher and his companion were arrested by the police in a buy-bust operation in Pateros on Dec. 2. The Southern Police District (SPD) only identified the suspects as alias Nunoy, 41, who was the target of the operation, an alleged drug pusher, and his companion, alias Edwin,...
Cases of election-related violence and other incidents in this year’s barangay elections went up by around 162 percent compared to the barangay poll-related incidents in 2018, data from the Philippine National Police (PNP) disclosed on Thursday, Nov. 30. From 40 validated election-related...
As both the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) prepare for the resumption of peace talks, the Philippine Army said on Thursday, Nov. 30, that it will continue dismantling the weakened guerrilla fronts and neutralizing the remaining armed groups of the communist...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has vowed anew to advance the cause of human rights especially in the conduct of its operations, with its top official saying that the commitment to human rights is not merely a legal obligation but a moral imperative. PNP chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda, Jr....
