Dispatches: The Philippines’ Pay-Per-Hit Police
The newly elected mayor of Cebu City has an innovative approach to crime control in this central Philippine city: A 50,000 peso (US$1,080) bounty for each “criminal” killed by his police force.
The newly elected mayor of Cebu City has an innovative approach to crime control in this central Philippine city: A 50,000 peso (US$1,080) bounty for each “criminal” killed by his police force.
They may be supportive of their city mayor but residents here do not share the same opinion when it comes to death penalty that President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said he will restore.
A total of 160,916 family food packs were distributed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to families situated in areas hit by El Ni?o.
The Army reported that three rebels and a soldier were killed in a series of encounters between the elements of the 60th Infantry Battalion and the New People’s Army in Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley Province on Wednesday, May 18.
The Task Force Davao ? has a new commander in Colonel Henry Robinson Jr., whose new duties were formally turned over to him by outgoing Colonel George Lalaquil during the Change of Command Ceremony, Wednesday, May 18.