PNP Requests Extension of Gun Amnesty
Posted by admin on Oct 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Philippine National Police (PNP) made a request to President Arroyo for a month-long extension of the gun amnesty giving gun owners more time to register their undocumented guns and renew expired licenses.
The PNP has requested the President, through Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronnie Puno, for an extension of the General Firearms Amnesty from Nov. 1 to 30, 2009.
Executive Order No. 817 only provided for...
Gibo-Loren Being Pushed by Many
Posted by admin on Oct 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
With Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno out of the way, the ruling party is now pinning its hopes on newly declared vice presidential candidate Sen. Loren Legarda to form a bold presidential tandem.
And the Lakas Kampi CMD is pretty much open to coalescing with the Nationalist peoples’s Coalition on the condition that Legarda would team up with Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro in next year’s presidential...
Install Alarm Systems vs. Disasters
Posted by admin on Oct 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Department of Interior and Local Government on tuesday ordered all local government units in disaster-prone areas to install alarm systems capable of producing’loud, wailing sounds’ to warn residents of an inbound disaster.
Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno gave anxious local officers thirty days to install the alarm system. He in particular related that these alarm systems are compulsory in the following...
DILG Sec Ronnie Puno Sees 25,000 New Cops By 2010
Posted by pinay on Oct 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
One of the three major concerns of the Department of the Interior and Local Government is peace and order (with local governance and public safety being the other two). Department Secretary Ronnie Puno therefore sees the need to increase the number of men and women in uniform to the tune of 25,000 new police personnel by next year.
That sheer number is expected to increase the capability of the Philippine National Police...
Seven Forest Guards Abducted By Ex-NPA
Posted by pinay on Oct 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Seven forest guards tasked with protecting an important watershed in Butuan City according to police reports. The report cited that the men behind the abduction were former members of the New People’s Army (NPA) and that these men are involved in illegal logging.
The forest guards were said to be kidnapped at gunpoint by the rebel returnees led by one Andot Behing. The forest guards who are with the Department...
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