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Police in the Philippines are investigating reports that kidnapped American YouTuber Elliot Eastman has been shot dead. Eastman, 26, was reportedly shot twice while resisting an abduction by ...
Philippine police at the gate of Kingdom of Jesus Christ Compound. At 4:00 a.m. of August 24, [27] a composite police team, led by regional police chief Torre [13] and composed of 2,000 personnel from Regions XI, XII and XIII, [27] initiated another search in the KOJC compound in an attempt to arrest Quiboloy and four others.
On February 24, 2021, a botched buy-bust operation resulted in a shootout between units of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. [1] The incident resulted in the deaths of two police officers, a PDEA agent and an informant. [2]
[22] [needs update] While the 2003 and 2012 anti-trafficking laws criminalize sex and labor trafficking with penalties of up to 20 years imprisonment and significant fines (between 1 million and 2 million Philippine pesos), the government's enforcement efforts have weakened due to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. [23]
In a research report for The Asia Foundation conducted by Atty. Al A. Parreno on the grim tradition of police executions, there were a total of 305 incidents of extrajudicial killings with 390 victims from 2001 to 2010, with only a total of 161 cases or 56% of the incidents have been filed with the prosecutor. [61]
The Philippine police said on Wednesday they will investigate revelations made by former President Rodrigo Duterte that he assembled a "death squad" to control crime when he was mayor of the ...
On December 20, 2020, a shooting incident occurred in Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines, when a police officer, Jonel Nuezca, fatally shot two of his neighbors, Sonia and Frank Gregorio, after a heated argument over an improvised noisemaker . The victims' relatives and the perpetrator's underage daughter were present at the scene of the crime and ...
Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...