SPEAKING OUT It was a striking image yesterday: thousands of young men and women filing into exam halls across the country, clutching pens and prayer beads, ready to take the Philippine National Police (PNP) entrance and promotional exams. For them, this was more than a test—it was a chance to...
Police regained their right to brag after crime data revealed a reduction in crime volume in Metro Manila and other urban areas since the implementation of the Safer Cities Initiative. And it was indeed a sigh of relief especially that the local ordinance implementation took severe beatings on...
Police forces in central and western part of Mindanao were alerted and ordered to step up both defensive and offensive stance to deny any opportunity of retaliatory attack following the death of 10 members of Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) in a fierce clash in in Lanao del Sur. Gen. Jose...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said it would conduct a parallel investigation and impose sanctions if warranted after six of its personnel were arrested by their brothers-in-uniform from the Philippine National Police (PNP) during an anti-smuggling operation in Naawan, Misamis Oriental on Friday,...
Six Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel and a civilian cohort were collared by their brothers-in-uniform from the Philippine National Police (PNP) after they allegedly yielded P3,075,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes during an anti-smuggling operation in Naawan, Misamis Oriental on Friday, April...
Police General Jose Melencio Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police, ordered the new leadership of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) on Friday, April 17, to strictly enforce anti-hazing rules following an incident that led to the arrest of at least three second year...
Ten suspected members of the Dawlah Islamiya–Maute Group were killed in a pre-dawn encounter that lasted for eight gruelling hours with government forces in Marantao, Lanao del Sur on Friday, April 17, including two of the group’s top leaders, police said. Operatives from the Criminal...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is now conducting a comprehensive investigation to track down the network behind a P2.7 million shipment of smuggled cigarettes seized in Cotabato City on Wednesday, April 15. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr. said the successful operation reflects...
Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), lauded the rescue of a 78-year old businessman in an operation that led to the death of four of his captors in a brief shootout in Parañaque City. But Nartatez said the incident will be investigated as a matter of...
Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered an expansion of its anti-hazing measures that will include all police training units across the country. The order stemmed from the incident at the PNP Academy on April 3 when three cadets applied a...
Anti-kidnapping agents of the Philippine National Police (PNP) rescued a 78-year old businessman from the clutches of his abductors in a daring rescue operation that resulted in the death of four suspects, two of them turned out to be dismissed policemen. Police Brig. Gen. Glicerio Cansilao,...
At least nine officials of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) were relieved from their posts as part of the continuing investigation into the muriatic acid hazing incident early this month. The relief order dated April 15 also led to a minor reshuffle, including the designation of Police...
