NCRPO nabs more than 20,000 ‘tambays’ in Metro Manila

Amid criticisms, the Philippine National Police (PNP) continues to round up local ordinance violators and loiterers, arresting more than 20,000 in Metro Manila in more than two weeks.
According to the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), 20,979 local ordinance violators were rounded-up from June 13 to June 29. President Rodrigo Duterte on June 13 ordered the PNP to accost “tambays” or those loitering in the streets especially at night.

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Duterte dared: Bring ‘tambay’ crackdown to posh villages too

Duterte dared: Bring ‘tambay’ crackdown to posh villages too

A group of youth activists dared President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday to bring his “anti-tambay” campaign to Congress and posh villages to disprove criticism that the government’s crackdown targeted only the poor.

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Duterte hits critics, says ‘no arrest’ made in crackdown on ‘tambays’

President Rodrigo Duterte hit back at his critics and claimed that no arrests were made following his order to the police to launch a crackdown on “tambays” (loiterers or idlers). “Yung utos ko sa pulis na ‘yung mga tambay. Sundin lang ninyo ‘yung utos ko. Wala namang inaaresto,” Duterte in his speech during  Certificate of Land Ownership Award […]

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Cops arrest 302 ‘tambays’ in one night in Quezon City

Cops arrest 302 ‘tambays’ in one night in Quezon City

In response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s warning to ‘tambays’ – people who loiter on the streets, especially at night – the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) has arrested 302 violators of various city ordinances.

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