PNP to Robredo: Focus on drug rehabilitation

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:47:21 +0000

  The Philippine National Police (PNP) has urged Vice President Leni Robredo to focus more on advocacy and rehabilitation of illegal drug users. Gen. Archie Gamboa, PNP officer-in-charge, said those two facets of aggressive anti-illegal drugs campaign are where the anti-narcotics law enforcement agencies are lacking focus. Advocacy focuses on measures to discourage people from […]

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Lawyer disbarred for failure to support child

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:28:35 +0000

The Supreme Court (SC) has disbarred a lawyer who failed to provide support to his minor son and falsified the entries in his son’s birth certificate, among other violations of the Code of Professional Responsibility. Disbarred was Amador B. Peleo III who was found guilty of gross unlawful, dishonest and deceitful conduct in violation of […]

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No body cams yet for PNP despite allocation

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:25:15 +0000

The Philippine National Police (PNP) is racing against time to procure the P334 million worth of high-definition body cameras which will be used to ensure transparency in the conduct of illegal drugs operations. Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa, PNP officer-in-charge, said that the bidding process for the body cameras must be completed before the end of […]

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Baby boy abducted in Bacolod

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 02:51:08 +0000

  BACOLOD CITY – Police are looking for a woman who allegedly abducted a 17-day-old baby boy while the child’s mother was having a hair treatment at a salon here Monday. Maj. Jovil Sedel, head of Police Station 1, said the unidentified suspect approached 24-year-old Mary Grace Goto at Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital […]

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Napoleon expert admits chopping up lover in Russia

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:15:29 +0000

A prominent Saint Petersburg-based Napoleon expert has confessed to murdering his young lover and former student and dismembering her body in a grisly crime that sent shock waves across Russia. Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history lecturer who received France’s Legion d’Honneur from Jacques Chirac in 2003, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder after he […]

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Hong Kong police open fire, wounding protester

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:07:45 +0000

Hong Kong police opened fire and hit at least one protester on Monday, witnesses and media reports said, as chaos erupted across the city a day after officers fired tear gas to break up demonstrations that are entering their sixth month. Police fired live rounds at protesters on the eastern side of Hong Kong island, […]

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Isko punishes vendors over Divisoria garbage

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:20:37 +0000

  Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso expressed dismay as he saw the piles of garbage at Divisoria in Binondo, Manila, during a surprise pre-dawn inspection on Monday. Scrap vegetables and various plastic wastes of vendors littered Ilaya Street as Moreno inspected the area around 5:30 a.m. As penalty, Moreno said, vendors would no longer be allowed to […]

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‘No Christmas break’ for Manila vendors ban

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 09:11:48 +0000

  Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso bared that there will be no “Christmas break” for the ban on vendors along the major roads and thoroughfares in the nation’s capital. The mayor debunked the rumors that he had already allowed the vendors to occupy the streets of Manila for the upcoming Christmas season. “Nakagawian na […]

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368 NCRPO cops sent to NBP amid drive vs corrupt prison guards

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 03:53:46 +0000

  A total of 368 policemen from the National Capital Region Police (NCRPO) were deployed to the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) to secure maximum security facilities amid the on-going purge of corrupt prison guards and personnel of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor). NCRPO director Brig. Gen. Debold Sinas said the 368 policemen from their Regional […]

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Peralta can’t act on cursing lawyers

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 09:10:28 +0000

Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta has admitted being helpless in taking action against lawyers cursing in public or in social media. “What can we do?” lamented the country’s top magistrate. “Let them enjoy their freedom,” Peralta pointed out. The Chief Justice responded to the queries of reporters concerning lawyers Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon and Foreign Affairs Secretary […]

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