(MANILA BULLETIN) Police bodycam recordings must be unedited, untampered, and properly handled. Thus, stressed Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan on Thursday, Jan. 18 as he told the Philippine National Police (PNP) to ensure the...
PNP (Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Speaker and Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar wants to institutionalize law enforcement officers' use of body cameras and dashboard cameras during the conduct of searches and arrests. Villar, spokesperson of the Nacionalista Party...
(MANILA BULLETIN) A Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) official-turned-congressman wants to ensure that Philippine National Police (PNP) members know how to properly retrieve and handle data from body-worn cameras (bodycams). In a House Committee on Public Order and Safety...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Saturday, July 17, welcomed the Supreme Court requiring policemen to use body-worn cameras when serving arrest and search warrants. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian during a special session in the Senate. (Henzberg Austria/Senate PRIB file) Gatchalian said the rules...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has taken the initiative of soliciting body-worn cameras (BWCs) from local government units and the private sector in a bid to equip as many of its police units with the gadget which is seen as a tool to ensure transparency in the conduct of operations,...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) welcomed on Saturday, June 12, the latest pronouncement of the Supreme Court (SC) that the rules on the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) could be finalized and approved next month. FOR TRANSPARENCY'S SAKE --PNP Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar announces the use of...
The body-worn cameras that were procured to ensure transparency in the conduct of police operations are night-vision capable with an object detection range of up to 10 meters in the dark, a top police official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) disclosed on Saturday, June 5. PNP chief Gen....
To ensure transparency and legitimacy of its operations, the Philippine National Police (PNP) finally began using body-worn cameras (BWCs) on Friday, June 4, nearly four years after teenager Kian Lloyd delos Santos died of police abuse in Caloocan City in 2017. The killing of the minor shook...
Senator Grace Poe on Friday, May 7, appealed to newly-appointed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar to include in his mission orders the use of body-worn cameras in police operations. Philippine National Police (Official Gazette/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Poe, in a...
The video footage from a police body camera can offer "more believable" evidence in court, Malacañang said Tuesday as the country's police force moves to finalize protocols on the use of such technology to record law enforcement operations. (AFP/Manila Bulletin) According to Presidential spokesman...
