The Philippines should cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in investigating the controversial bloody drug war of the past Duterte administration, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III today, Jan. 27, said. "Let us cooperate as we are a responsible member of the world...
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government said Friday it intended to appeal an International Criminal Court decision to reopen an inquiry into Manila's brutal anti-drug campaign, which left thousands dead. Former president Rodrigo Duterte, who initiated the drug war, pulled the Philippines...
The courtesy resignation in the police force will only apply to third level officers, or from full colonel to generals, of the Philippine National Police (PNP). PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr. explained that the process of assessment and evaluation by the Committee of Five, as well as its...
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Friday, January 27 expressed his belief there are some people who are indeed pushing for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to pursue an investigation into the Philippines’ war on drugs during the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dela Rosa...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The International Criminal Court said Thursday it had authorised the reopening of an inquiry into the brutal anti-drugs campaign by former Philippines' president Rodrigo Duterte which left thousands dead. Duterte pulled the Philippines out of the Hague-based tribunal in...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos wants to meet with the 11 senior police officers who are yet to file a courtesy resignation. There are 956 full colonels and generals in the PNP and based on the latest data, 11 of them declined to submit courtesy...
The Internal Affairs Service of the Philippine National Police (PNP-IAS) has recommended the dismissal from the service of a police sergeant who was tagged in the P6.7 billion worth of shabu that was seized in October last year in Sta. Ana, Manila. IAS Inspector General Alfegar Triambulo said they...
Two operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) were arrested after they allegedly tried to intervene in the arrest of a police sergeant who was arrested on Monday night, Jan. 16, in a buy-bust operation in Sta. Cruz, Manila. Maj. Gen. Jonnel Estomo, director of the National...
Anti-narcotics operatives of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) arrested on Monday night, Jan 16, a suspected drug pusher who turned out to be a police sergeant assigned to the Philippine National Police- Drug Enforcement Group (PDEG). The arrest of Police Staff Sgt. Ed Dyson Banaag...
ZURICH, Switzerland — President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has called on Asia-Pacific countries to start charting their own destiny far from the intense geopolitical rivalry in the region. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) Marcos said this during a luncheon...
Anti-narcotics operatives of the Philippine National Police (PNP) seized more than P70 million worth of illegal drugs and arrested over 2,000 people in the first two weeks of this year, national police chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr. disclosed on Monday, Jan. 16. In a press briefing at Camp Crame in...
Almost all of the third level officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP), or those with the rank of full colonels to generals, have already complied with the request of Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos to submit a courtesy resignation. PNP...
