Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday urged the Philippine National Police (PNP) to watch out for a possible surge in violence against children during this enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) period. Gatchalian recalled that the last time there was an increase of crimes committed against women and...
More than 20,000 people were apprehended, warned and fined for violations of various quarantine rules during the first day of the implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila although those accosted include those from four adjacent provinces of the metropolis. Gen....
Senator Panfilo Lacson on Saturday, August 7, stood by his claim that the Philippine National Police (PNP) is engaged in "illegal" data gathering activities using the government's anti-insurgency funds, saying he cannot just disregard reports from field officers themselves. Senator Panfilo Lacson...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Saturday, August 7, police commanders in Metro Manila to coordinate with their Local Government Units (LGUs) for the distribution of cash aid to qualified recipients in areas under Enhanced Community...
The Muntinlupa police apprehended 64 persons on the first day of implementation of the unified curfew under the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila. The whole National Capital Region (NCR) is under ECQ from Aug. 6 to 20 and Metro Manila mayors have implemented new curfew hours from...
The provincial director of the Sulu Provincial Police Office (PPO) was gunned down by a subordinate cop whom he allegedly scolded at a quarantine checkpoint in Jolo town on Friday afternoon, Aug. 6. (Philippine National Police) Police Col. Michael Bawayan Jr., 49, director of Sulu PPO, was shot...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) belied allegations Friday, Aug. 6, that it has been misusing the multi-million peso fund of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to conduct census in different barangays nationwide. Philippine National Police Chief, General...
As the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) began in the National Capital Region (NCR) Friday, August 6, the distribution of financial aid (ayuda) to qualified beneficiaries will possibly start next week, an executive of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) bared. DILG...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) leadership told ground commanders Friday, Aug. 6, to closely coordinate with local chief executives about the vaccination systems and processes in their localities to prevent a repeat of the overcrowding seem at certain incoulation sites in the National Capital...
As the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) officially took effect in the National Capital Region (NCR) on Friday, Aug. 6, the Philippine National Police (PNP) mobilized 1,203 police personnel to conduct law enforcement and public safety operations at checkpoints established in Metro Manila's...
Would the police bar unvaccinated workers from going out during the entire Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) implementation in Metro Manila? “There’s no such order,” said Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar when asked to clarify information spreading online...
Following the public uproar created by the strict rule on “hatid-sundo” of essential workers during the August 6-20 Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has set new requirements to prevent fetchers, who are not authorized to go out and make...
