Crime Prevention and Law Enforcement

[MissMuchasGuapa]

How to keep safe this holiday season:

With less than a month to go before the start of the holiday season also comes the time of the year for criminals to take advantage of the bounty season. Criminals use this opportunity to gain valuables through their various modus operandi which also gets innovative year after year.

Holiday crimes range from petty ones to those violent and dangerous cases during the season. Petty crimes include cellphones being snatched during broad daylight in busy streets, pickpockets getting wallets of pedestrians, or cars being broken into with anything of value being taken in a flash. On the other hand, serious crimes covers vehicles being taken from their owners at gunpoint, or drugs being openly sold near schools, churches or police precincts.

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[Manila-X]

We have a new PNP Chief!!!

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/326253/...pnp-chief-post

[gmaer]

Matapos magsimbang gabi binatilyo dedo sa gang war
Ni Ludy Bermudo (Pilipino Star Ngayon) | Updated December 18, 2012 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - Utas ang isang 15-anyos* na binatilyo nang barilin ng isa sa naka*initang grupo rin ng kabataan sa unang araw ng Simbang Gabi sa Tondo, Maynila, kama*kalawa ng umaga

Dead-on-arrival sa Mary Johnston Hospital ang biktimang si Bryan Kenneth Cali, ng Choco St., Tondo Maynila bunga ng tinamong ng tama ng bala sa ulo.

Iniimbestigahan ang grupo ng suspect na may 40 umano ang bilang na nakabanggaan ng grupo ng biktima mula sa simbahan hanggang sa muling magpang-abot sa kalye at nauwi sa pamamaril sa biktima.

Sa ulat ni PO3 Rodel Benitez ng MPD-Homicide Section, dakong alas-5:00 ng umaga nang ma*ganap ang pamamaril sa biktima sa Sta. Maria St., Moriones*, Tondo.

Nabatid sa imbestigas*yon na sa loob ng simba*han pa lamang umano ay nagkakantiyawan na ang grupo kaya nang matapos ang misa ay nag-abangan sa labas ang mga ito na humantong sa kaguluhan.

[pi_malejana]

wtf?!?! wag naman sana magaya sa US na kung saan mga loose-firearms nagiging problema..

Eight dead, nine wounded in shooting rampage by lone gunman in Cavite
GMA News | January 4, 2013 12:28pm

(Updated 5:10 p.m.) Eight people, two of them children, were killed when a man who was believed to be drunk and depressed went on a shooting rampage in Kawit town in Cavite province early Friday, police said.

At least nine people were also wounded in the massacre at Barangay Tabon 1, according to Cavite provincial police deputy director for administration Senior Superintendent Dionisio Borromeo.

"Walo na ang patay kasama ang gunman, at siyam ang sugatan," Borromeo said in an interview on dzBB radio.

Full article:
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...nman-in-cavite

[dessertfox]

It’s quite alarming that gun related incidence almost occupies all the news programs for the past days. New Year’s stray bullets killing innocent, Cavite incidence killing innocents, new year’s eve killing of a Forest Guard in Quezon, ambuscades etc.

We may not be ready yet for a gunless society but please stop showcasing those officials advocating pro-guns, starting from the chief executive staff and cabinet members and macho kuno Prez. and Vice Prez. This will never help solve crimes but rather advocating hooliganism and gangsterism.

"Surely, you wouldn't feel secure having people around you toting guns, would you? And, conversely, you do feel secure having a gun with you, don't you?. What for? Protection? Or empowerment of your ego? Human nature, whether we like it or not, are prone to fits of aggression and that impulsive behavior associated with the greed for more power, territory and domination". (Gunless Society)

[tita01]

Originally Posted by pi_malejana

wtf?!?! wag naman sana magaya sa US na kung saan mga loose-firearms nagiging problema..

Eight dead, nine wounded in shooting rampage by lone gunman in Cavite
GMA News | January 4, 2013 12:28pm

katakot .

[Manila-X]

It is still an isolated case and is not a reason for foreign countries to issue a travel warning on The Philippines.

[dessertfox]

BAH HAMBUG

[gmaer]

Originally Posted by Manila-X

It is still an isolated case and is not a reason for foreign countries to issue a travel warning on The Philippines.

SK embassy imposed travel warning to its citizens in Cavite via GPS SMS.

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by gmaer

SK embassy imposed travel warning to its citizens in Cavite via GPS SMS.

They should do the same thing in their citizens in The United States especially those in Colorado or Connecticut.

[gmaer]

Originally Posted by Manila-X

They should do the same thing in their citizens in The United States especially those in Colorado or Connecticut.

The SK embassy is kinda high tech in protecting their citizens abroad. The US is a major defense ally of SK compared to the Philippines, they are more confident with the US police and military than ours.

[Wind Shear]

Originally Posted by Manila-X

It is still an isolated case and is not a reason for foreign countries to issue a travel warning on The Philippines.

Let it be. If they heed their advisories, they will miss the fun anyway.

[d7beast]

Langya, isang platoon na kriminal ito a!

Philippine troops kill 13 suspects in clash


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Sunday, January 6, 2013

MANILA — Philippine officials said army troops and police have killed 13 suspected criminals in a fierce gunbattle that also wounded a police officer in a coastal town southeast of Manila.

Army Lt. Col. Monico Abang said the gunmen aboard two black SUVs opened fire on about 50 police and army special forces troops when they were flagged down Sunday afternoon at a highway checkpoint in Atimonan town in Quezon province, sparking the firefight.

Abang, who led the army troops, said that gunmen from a third van also opened fire but managed to turn around and escape.

Quezon provincial police chief Valeriano de Leon said 11 gunmen died in the scene of the clash. Two others died while being brought to a hospital. (AP)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-n...s-clash-261591

[gmaer]

Police foil bombing attempt at Kidapawan police station
(philstar.com) | Updated January 6, 2013 - 5:21pm

KIDAPAWAN, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say a powerful bomb has been defused outside the main police station in a southern city that has come under attack from Muslim rebels in the past.

Investigator Ryan Batilo says the bomb, consisting of two 60mm mortar rounds wired to a battery and a cellphone, was found and disarmed by police Sunday near the gate of the police station in North Cotabato province's capital city of Kidapawan.

Batilo says police closed a main road as ordnance experts defused the bomb, which was wrapped in used clothes. The site is near the city jail, which has come under attack from Muslim militants attempting to free their detained comrades.

Police said last month that they had received intelligence of possible bombing plots by Muslim militants in some southern cities.

Our local terror bombers are getting bolder, more daring!

Originally Posted by d7beast

Langya, isang platoon na kriminal ito a!

Philippine troops kill 13 suspects in clash

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-n...s-clash-261591

13 men doesn't count as 1 platoon, but the 50 police and army special forces troops does, unless you're just talking in a figurative speech.

[d7beast]

Originally Posted by dessertfox

BAH HAMBUG
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parang sniper na terro a,..

[d7beast]

Originally Posted by gmaer

Police foil bombing attempt at Kidapawan police station
(philstar.com) | Updated January 6, 2013 - 5:21pm



Our local terror bombers are getting bolder, more daring!



13 men doesn't count as 1 platoon, but the 50 police and army special forces troops does, unless you're just talking in a figurative speech.

yung namatay 13, d moba binilang yung mga nakatakas?

[gmaer]

Originally Posted by d7beast

yung namatay 13, d moba binilang yung mga nakatakas?

Palusot... Walang nabanggit sa balita na may nakatakas!

[Blackraven]

Go ahead, take it out on legal gun owners
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star) | Updated January 7, 2013 - 12:00am

Go ahead, take out your frustrations with the New Year’s Eve gun slayings of two Metro Manila youngsters and the Cavite massacre on responsible, licensed gun owners. That kind of attitude is sure to distract everyone from the core issues. Go and ban all firearms from civilians, even in homes. Then watch the crime volume soar, especially akyat-bahay (burglaries), home invasions, robberies, and assassinations.

It’s common knowledge that the Philippine National Police is too inept and crooked, dumb and lazy to protect society from criminals. That’s why civilians resort to arming themselves. In so doing, they deter crime. Goons think twice about breaking into homes or doing in civilians whom they know are trained and ready to repulse them with firearms.

To begin with, the police not licensed gun owners is to blame for the New Year gun slayings. The four bullets that hit a five-year-old Mandaluyong City boy in the nape and back were fired from a sumpak (homemade shotgun). The firearm was illegal. Made only of ordinary steel pipe and umbrella handle, it is a common weapon of street crime gangs like the Sigue-Sigue Sputnik, Commando, and Batang City Jail. It can never be licensed, only confiscated, by the police.

Now why was the boy’s drunken neighbor let to roam around toting such a deadly weapon, which he accidentally had fired? Where were the cops, and the “force multiplier” barangay tanod (watchmen)? Were they too busy boozing and engorging that they couldn’t patrol against exploders of prohibited firecrackers and so perhaps chance upon the drunk staggering down the street with an illegal weapon?

The police ought to check out the drunk’s inquest statement. He said he was hunting down a neighborhood toughie who had mauled him days earlier, but against whom the cops did nothing. He was taking the law into his own hands because, he swore, the cops had done nothing!

The bullet that hit a seven-year-old girl in Caloocan City was fired at the height of the illegal firecracker blasting in the streets at midnight of December 31. Again where were the police and barangay patrols? From reports of neighbors and scattered bullet shells, at least 11 other shots were fired from outside several front doors nearby. Could not the police distinguish gunfire from cracker explosion? Or were they too cowardly to respond to such situation?


The events following the serious wounding of the girl show police laziness and dumbness. Take it from forensics pathologist Dr. Raquel Fortun, who knows about police work, or the lack of it. Per S-O-P, the crime scene should have been cordoned off immediately and initial investigation done, including searching for witnesses and bullet shells in the vicinity. The cops did no such thing. One officer even told reporters that they could do nothing because this was a “ligaw na bala” (stray bullet) and they weren’t at the scene when the gun was fired.

That officer needs to be reminded of one basic thing: crimes murder, robbery, rape, arson, and lighting illegal crackers are committed precisely when the police are not around. That’s why mobile and foot patrols are necessary, to deter crime. That’s also why there is such a thing as forensics painstaking data (evidence) gathering, scientific testing, and analysis to reconstruct the event, solve the crime, and determine the truth.

The Caloocan police started moving only because of national media attention. By then the girl had expired in the hospital. Swiftly a team picked up a barangay arbitrator who, with four drinking buddies, had fired his licensed .45-caliber pistol on New Year’s Eve.

The caliber is the same as the slug recovered from the girl’s crushed brain, so the gun was turned over to the PNP Crime Lab in Camp Crame. Good! But then an initial check showed the barrel scratch marks on the slug do not match the gun bore’s ballistics record. And so, the Caloocan police chief announced to reporters that the suspect had to be cleared. He backpedaled when knowledgeable licensed firearms owners began calling the news radio stations to ask questions. Like, despite the gun record on file, had the ballistics examiners fired the gun again to check if the suspect had changed the barrel since registering it? Had he changed the barrel after firing last New Year’s? In case the police chief doesn’t know, a new barrel constitutes a different gun.

So the gun owner is now to be charged with negligent custody of firearm and, along with his four cohorts, alarm and scandal, and illegal discharge of ammunition (up to 12 years in prison). Should the pistol prove to be the fatal weapon, they also will be indicted for homicide (up to 40 years). How can such an irresponsible neighbor be appointed to judge community and domestic feuds?

Meanwhile, correctly the cops have narrowed down other “persons of interest” first to the 45 nearby registered .45-caliber pistol owners. Then, based on triangulation, they reduced it to the 32 who live within 50 meters of the home where the girl was slain. The homicide easily would be solved if the fatal firearm is registered. But what if the bullet came from an unlisted pistol? The cops don’t know what to do next.

And that’s part of a bigger problem that the PNP has not solved all these decades. There were 939,827 firearms as of Oct. 13, 2011, according to the PNP Firearms and Explosives Division website. Collecting P1,800-fee for each, the PNP makes a cool P1.7 billion a year from licensing. Yet the PNP brass has made no allotment to crack down on loose firearms. Such unregistered guns, long and short, were estimated to be about 200,000 in the ’80s, 300,000 in the ’90s, and 552,000 today. Most of the additional “illegals” are guns whose licenses have not been renewed for more than a year.

One such newly loose firearm is the .45-pistol used by the madman in Kawit, Cavite, who shot dead eight neighbors, including three youngsters, and wounded eight more. The PNP should have searched out and confiscated that and other loose firearms long ago. It has on file all old gun licensees’ names, addresses, workplaces, photos, fingerprints, and taxpayer info, among others. The PNP can make more billions auctioning off the contraband.

Back to the massacrer, an ex-barangay councilman, again the Kawit police goofed. Neighbors had reported him to be arbitrarily firing a gun on New Year’s Eve. The cops didn’t respond. Again reports were made on the night of January 2 about shots ringing out from the house. Still no police action.

It turned out that the loony, with a barangay watchman, had been boozing and toking shabu (crack) before he flipped and started shooting neighbors last Friday. Had the police bothered to check him out earlier, the massacre might not have happened.

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http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2013...gal-gun-owners

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I agree with this opinion piece in the sense that in the case of the Philippines, gun ownership DOES NOT cause crime.

If you look in the case of countries or territories such as say Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Chile or in most of Europe, there is no need to own a gun when you are in those places because those places are RELATIVELY SAFE.

BUT more importantly imo, people there trust their police and law enforcement (in general and in an overall sense). People in those areas know that when a crime happens, it will be solved as soon as possible and justice will be upheld.

Pero in the case of the Philippines, not yet. Wala pa tayo dyan.

Of course, there are some good cops and law enforcement personnel who are committed and are doing their duty throughly. Unfortunately, the rest are yung tipong tamad, pasaway or are unfit to do their duty.

Can we be sure that we are protected by those kinds of cops and law enforcement?

People here need to be assured that the police and law enforcement can protect its citizens 100% of the time (or fine kahit more than 90% of the time).

Otherwise, our family will continue to keep our P228 pistol in our house.

[dessertfox]

I had so many experiences about gun lovers, to name some, take the case of one wealthy doctor who owned the best guns you may know and an armory for only purpose of 'kayabangan". One day he unloaded one of his favorite pistol then playfully poke it to his nephew, then all of sudden the poor kid laid dead.

One poor kid grew-up with a war freak dad, taught all his kids on how to go to war with his gun collections and armory. One day he asked the young kid to clean his remington shotgun, after unloading it and started cleaning it the gun rang towards his woman.

Read this news, it seems that we are now in a war zone with no clear enemy, out of the 13 dead, an Environmentalist, Police Superintendent, 2 ISAF. In real war zone at least you know where to point the gun, now you may never know you'll be the next to swallow bullets.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...attle-with-pnp

[pi_malejana]

Originally Posted by gmaer

Palusot... Walang nabanggit sa balita na may nakatakas!

may 3rd vehicle na nakatakas...

Police have launched a manhunt for other members of the group who were believed to have escaped during Sunday afternoon's firefight.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...attle-with-pnp

anyway, at least ito police vs criminals (di tulad nung sa Cavite) pero nakakapagtaka pa rin na may mga taga-ISAFP daw tapos ung isa respected environmentalist pa daw (Jun Lontok)...