PNP trains barangay officials as first crime scene responders
Philippine Information Agency
25 May 2021, 22:38 GMT+10
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, May 25 (PIA) The Philippine National Police - Regional Crime Laboratory Office (PRCLO) is conducting orientations and trainings for barangay officials to be first responders at crime scenes.
Police Lieutenant Elvis Bacud, Police Strategy Management Unit Officer, said that they go to barangays to conduct seminars to capacitate and equip local officials on their functions and responsibilities as initial crime scene responders.
Crime Laboratory officials from the PNP-2 conduct a drug testing for applicants for a License to Own and Posesses Firearms. (PNP-SOCO)
SunStar PNP to cops: No profiling of community pantry organizers
PAMPANGA. Volunteers from Barangay San Nicolas in Masantol, Pampanga prepare the goods to be served to those who need them through a community pantry. (Contributed photo)
+ May 20, 2021 THE Philippine National Police (PNP) Directorate for Police Community Relations (DPCR) is crafting guidelines to be followed by police personnel in engaging with community pantry organizers to avoid any further misconceptions and misunderstanding.
PNP Chief General Guillermo Eleazar said under the guidelines, police presence in the vicinity of community pantries should not be to conduct profiling of organizers, but to maintain peace and order and ensure that minimum public health safety standards are strictly observed.
A select number of police officers, community members, and elected officials will be able to gather for the 41st Annual Police Community Relations Awards this Friday.
Published May 8, 2021, 2:01 PM
Former national police spokesman Lt. Gen. Dionardo Bernardo Carlos was designated as the number four man of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in a major revamp that was triggered by the retirement of Gen. Debold Sinas.
Carlos assumed the position of the Chief Directorial Staff, which is equivalent to the position of Chief Operations Officer in private companies.
A member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class of 1988, Carlos got the position as he was the first in line in order of seniority in the PNP.
He served as a PNP spokesman in 2017 before he was named as the director of the Aviation Security Group. He also served as the director of the Directorate for Information and Communications Technology (DICTM) and the Directorate for Police Community Relations (DPCR) before he was designated as the director of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operations- Visayas where he earned his third star.
PNP draft paper has planted beneficiaries taking selfies at Barangayanihan pantries By JOVILAND RITA, GMA News
Published April 27, 2021 5:56pm The Philippine National Police (PNP) has started a project akin to the community pantries that had sprouted in Metro Manila and in other parts of the country to provide food to the needy amid the COVID-19 lockdowns. However, a briefer on the project which became the subject of some social media posts indicated the deployment of planted beneficiary civilians who will post pictures of the Barangayanihan program on social media. Police Colonel Harris Fama, deputy director of PNP Directorate for Police Community Relations, told GMA News Online that the circulating project brief was only a draft.