Published May 27, 2021, 8:37 AM
Operatives of the police’s Highway Patrol Group (HPG) killed two motorcycle-riding men in an encounter in Caloocan City late Wednesday night, May 26.
HPG director Police Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum said his men were manning checkpoints along Congressional Road Extension in North Caloocan at around 11:30 p.m. when the driver of a motorcycle suddenly sped it off when they were about to flag it down.
This resulted in a brief chase which ended when the motorcycle crashed along Mount Apo Drive in Barangay 171 in Caloocan City. But instead of surrendering, the two motorcycle-riding suspects men allegedly opened fire at the arriving policemen.
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Published May 20, 2021, 10:42 AM
The apology of the head of the police’s Human Rights Affairs Office to community pantry organizers is a proof that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has no policy of harassing them amid allegations of police intimidation before that prompted some of them to stop their operation.
PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar reiterated that the organization has never sanctioned a profiling of community pantry organizers who have been selflessly offering help to those in need and fostering the Bayanihan spirit.
The Chief of the PNP-HRAO, Police Brig. Gen. Vincent Calanoga, said in a congressional hearing last Wednesday that the allegations on police profiling are already under investigation and being acted upon. He later apologized to the community pantry organizers who felt threatened or intimidated by the actions of some police officers.