Lapid files bill creating central database for abused women, children protection orders By HANA BORDEY, GMA News
Published April 30, 2021 3:57pm Senator Manuel Lapid filed a bill that seeks to create a central database of temporary and permanent protection orders issued for abused women and children. The lawmaker filed Senate Bill 2143 to strengthen the enforcement of Temporary Protection Orders (TPOs) and Permanent Protection Orders (PPOs) by giving all police officers and other law enforcement authorities easy access to such documents. The measure mandates the Philippine National Police to maintain the central database for all valid and subsisting TPOs and PPOs. SB 2143 also tasks the courts issuing the protection orders to immediately register them with the central database.