CAMP Marcelo A. Adduru, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – A 32-year-old police officer on vacation drowned while trying to save two children from drowning in a river in Pamplona, Cagayan on Friday, May 26. ARINABO Police identified the victim as Police Corporal Mark Edhyson L. Arinabo, 32, assigned to...
CEBU CITY – The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO 7) on Thursday, Nov. 10, launched the ‘’Bisdak Cop Riders” – a team of motorcycle-riding policemen tasked to curb street crimes in the region. MEMBERS of the Police Regional Office-7 ‘Bisdak Cop Riders’ demonstrate how to...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – A man wanted for shooting a police intelligence officer in Sitio Tiwi, Barangay Matungao in Socorro town surrendered to authorities on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 17, after two days of hiding. Col. Samuel Delorino, newly-designated acting provincial director of...
TOKYO, Japan -- A Japanese police officer got drunk, fell asleep on the street and lost investigation documents containing the personal details of around 400 people including a criminal suspect, police and local media said. The 49-year-old officer in the western Hyogo region lost a bag containing...
PANGASINAN -- A former police officer and alleged leader of the notorious Magpali gun for hire criminal group operating in Region 1 including Pangasinan was arrested on Sunday, August 7. According to the statement of Philippine National Police, the dismissed cop was identified as Lt. Col. Wilson M....
BANI, Pangasinan – A policewoman was injured when her motorcycle crashed on the national highway in Barangay Poblacion here Sunday, July 31. A report from the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office said the victim, Police Corporal Marife Aquino, assigned to the Bolinao, Pangasinan Police...
BACOLOD CITY – A former policeman with a pending drug case was gunned down by three unidentified gunmen in a coffee shop in Purok 2, Barangay Linaon, Cauayan, Negros Occidental Friday, July 22. A POLICEMAN secures the coffee shop in Barangay Linaon, Cauayan, Negros Occidental where a former...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A happy-trigger policeman is facing administrative and criminal charges after he indiscriminately fired his firearm while drunk in Barangay Lagao here Tuesday, July 12. Police Lt. Col. Aldrin Gonzales, spokesperson of the General Santos City Police Office, said charges...
CEBU CITY – A retired policeman wanted for frustrated murder was arrested in the City of Naga, Cebu Thursday, July 15. The suspect, Leoncio Masocol Salubre Jr., 58, was arrested in his home in Barangay Pangdan at around 4 p.m. Salubre was listed as the No. 1 most wanted person in Cebu, said...
SAINT PAUL, United States -- Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of the murder of George Floyd, was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on Thursday on federal charges. This file handout photo provided by the Hennepin County Jail and received by AFP on May 31, 2020...
A police patrolman has been arrested by the Philippine National Police’s Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (PNP-IMEG) in Cotabato City for allegedly stealing a pickup truck and a motorcycle from his victims. Philippine National Police (File photo) Police Brig. Gen. Samuel Nacion,...
BURDEOS, Quezon – A retired policeman was shot dead while pacifying a drunken man who was poking a gun at a woman in Sitio Angib, Barangay Amot, this town, Sunday, June 19. Police Senior Master Sgt. Neil Monteverdi, officer-on-case, identified the victim as Orlando Bantucan, 66, a resident of...