Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III finds the request of Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos for courtesy resignation of all Philippine National Police (PNP) generals and colonels amid possible illegal drugs links as ‘’very strange and too...
Former Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has thumbed down a proposal to decriminalize illegal drug use saying this would only boost the market for illegal drugs. Lacson, a former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, made his position known after Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said he is now...
The criminal conviction handed down by the Caloocan City court against the police officers involved in former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs was a “sorrowful and partial victory,” Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Thursday, November 24. “We hail as sorrowful and partial...
Alliance of Filipino women, Gabriela, on Monday, Aug. 22, condemned the “harassment” and “physical assault” perpetrated by the Philippine National Police (PNP) from Batasan Police Station 6 against children’s rights advocates on the first day of classes for the School Year (SY) 2022-2023....
Eighty-two students of the Philippine National Police - Special Action Force (PNP) have undergone rigid training on sea vessel assault from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) which culminated on Tuesday, June 21, in Manila. Photo courtesy of Philippine Coast Guard The PCG said that it collaborated...
Six members of the Caloocan City Police’s anti-illegal drugs unit were recommended to be dismissed from service by the Philippine National Police – Internal Affairs Service (PNP-IAS) for allegedly assaulting a sidewalk vendor and robbing his “ayuda” worth P14,000 in March. In a CCTV...
The security preparation of the Philippine National Police (PNP) is "in full swing" for the inauguration of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in Manila on June 30. Police Col. Jean Fajardo, spokesperson of the Philippine National Police. (Photo courtesy of PNP) Coordination was...
Tasked with ensuring peaceful and orderly national and local elections, the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have deployed a total of more than 80,000 personnel ahead of the May 9 electoral exercise. More than preserving the sanctity of the ballot, the...
Around 75,000 personnel of the Philippine Army (PA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) who have election duties were qualified to participate in the local absentee voting that culminated on Friday, April 29. Philippine Army troops undergo pre-voting procedure for local absentee voting on...
President Duterte said he is willing to help police officers who will have trouble in legitimate operations even after his presidency ends on June 30, 2022, but reminded them that they should stick to their duty. President Duterte speaks at the 43rd Commencement Exercises of the Philippine National...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) deployed additional personnel and assets to help in the humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR) operations in Visayas, days after it was battered by Typhoon “Agaton.” Search and rescue personnel from the...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana challenged the United States government on Good Friday, April 15, to provide the details of the reports of human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by state security forces in the Philippines. Lt. Gen. Romeo S. Brawner Jr. (right),...
