Former senator Leila de Lima was disappointed with the verdict in the trial of Navotas policemen who were implicated in the shooting and killing of 17-year-old Jemboy Baltazar on Aug. 2, 2023. Jemboy was allegedly mistaken by the cops for a suspect during a police operation in Barangay NBBS,...
Gen. Benjamin Acorda, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered a review of existing policies on the use of firearms of all uniformed personnel as he insists that the use of guns must always be the last resort in any operation. Acorda issued the order after a Navotas court...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has lauded the filing by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of a murder case in court against six Navotas City policemen in the killing of 17-year-old Jerhode Jemboy Baltazar last Aug. 2. The Navotas City regional trial court (RTC) has ordered the arrest of PSSg....
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Six former lawmen tagged in the killing of 17-year-old Jemboy Baltazar in Navotas City on August 2 surrendered to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Quezon Provincial Field Unit in Camp Nakar, Lucena City, Quezon on Wednesday, October 4. SIX former...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has sought a Senate probe into the spate of killings involving children and youth, the latest involving a 15-year old who was shot in the abdomen by a police officer. “The violent killings of society’s most vulnerable—our children and youth—many...
The companion of slain teenager 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar told a Senate panel on Wednesday, Aug. 30, that the police investigator formerly handling the case altered the statement that he gave regarding the incident. Sonny Boy Aguistilo (Screenshot from the YouTube Live of the Senate...
Staff Sgt. Gerry Maliban, one of the six suspects involved in the killing of 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar told a Senate panel on Tuesday, Aug. 29, that while he was the first to fire, he said that he "heard a gunshot" first. During a hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Order and...
Amid the ongoing investigation on the killing of 17-year-old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar, a Senate panel on Tuesday, August 29 cited in contempt the former head of Navotas City Police's Station Investigation and Detective Management Section (SIDMS), after lengthy questioning about skipping the...
A Senate panel on Tuesday, August 22, has cited in contempt two policemen involved in the killing of 17-year old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar and ordered their detention at the Senate. The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, chaired by Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has filed a resolution calling on the Senate to investigate the murder of 17-year old Jerhode “Jemboy” Baltazar and urged the Upper Chamber to look into the unabated use of excessive and lethal force by the Philippine National Police (PNP) during anti-crime...
