Crime

MANILA, Philippines –  The Philippines has become a haven for fugitives due to the absence of a centralized biometric database of wanted criminals and the proliferation of fake documents, a multinational risk consultancy said.

MANILA, Philippines –  Statistics show that there has been a downward trend in crime rates over the last two years, an official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said yesterday.

THE World Bank on Monday identified the Philippines as one of nine countries suffering from multiple forms of political and criminal violence that have kept thousands of their people poor and unemployed.

MANILA, Philippines—Nearly one out of five Filipinos believes some provinces in northern Luzon and Mindanao are “unsafe” from crime, a survey conducted by the state-owned Philippine Information Agency has revealed.

MANILA, Philippines – Human and drug trafficking, corruption, and investment scams have remained the principal sources of criminal activities in the Philippines, according to the 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The year 2010 was a roller coaster ride for the Philippine National Police (PNP), earning praises for its vital role in ensuring honest and peaceful national and local elections, while condemned for failing to successfully resolve the hostage crisis that resulted in the death of eight Hong Kong tourists.

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine National Police (PNP) cried foul over the branding of the Philippines as a “broken and lawless nation” by a Hong Kong-based human rights group, stressing that such assessment is exaggerated and baseless.

MANILA, Philippines – Seventeen-year-old “Jennylyn” never even had the chance to mourn the death of her mother because on the very night of the funeral, she was taken by her uncle and was raped repeatedly, in different places, for hours.

MANILA, Philippines – Nine people were killed and nine others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded inside a passenger bus in Matalam, North Cotabato yesterday morning.

AFTER Malacañang’s grant of amnesty to rebel soldiers linked to past military uprisings, the Catholic Church is now asking President Benigno Aquino 3rd to give similar attention to “common prisoners” languishing in jail. An official of the Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care (ECPPC) of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Thursday…

MANILA– Facebook and other social networking tools are being used by sex assailants in the Philippines to lure their victims, contributing to a rise in such crimes, national police said Friday.

NEARLY 90% of Filipino Internet users have fallen prey to computer viruses, online “scams” and identity theft, survey results released by a storage and systems management firm on Tuesday showed.

The Aug. 23 botched hostage rescue operation that left at least eight Hong Kong Chinese tourists dead, with eight injured, and more traumatized by the incident, has cast a “very dark cloud” over the image of the Philippines in the eyes of the international community, a European Union (EU) official yesterday said.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of crimes committed against foreigners in Metro Manila hit 94 last year, a leading risk consultancy firm said.

MANILA, Philippines – Almost 80 percent of Filipinos want the restoration of police checkpoints across the country due to its effectiveness against crime, a survey said on Monday.

THE overall crime incidence in the country has significantly dropped during the first six month of the year, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP). Crime data culled by the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management showed that index crime or crime against persons sharply dropped to 66.84 percent and 71.31 percent for non-index crime…

MANILA, Philippines – Nine women were reported raped each day in 2009, mostly in Metro Manila, according to Philippine National Police (PNP) statistics, Cotabato Rep. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza said yesterday.

A new study conducted by the Department of Education (DepEd) showed an alarming increase in the number of male students being sexually molested in schools.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police (PNP) claimed it has already neutralized 10 private armed groups and arrested 80 suspected members since police intensified their campaign last Jan. 10.

MANILA, Philippines — Police records show that in 2009, the Philippines had a higher crime solution rate compared to other countries like United States and Japan.

MANILA, Philippines – Criminality nationwide increased by 63 percent in 2009 compared to the previous year, the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported yesterday.

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) has adopted a more efficient and accurate system of crime reporting in line with its Integrated Transformation Program in developing police systems and procedures. The National Crime Reporting System (NCRS) is now being implemented in all PNP units to report crime incidents to the national headquarters for centralized recording.

MANILA, Philippines – National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Director Roberto Rosales said among the Metro Manila police’s accomplishments he is proud of is the neutralization of the Alvin Flores robbery gang and 219 other crime gangs in 2009, but said he is still not satisfied and vowed to do more next year.

“Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings…

One morning last December the headlines shocked the nation. Sixteen persons had been killed the night before in a shootout in Parañaque City.

MANILA, Philippines – Incidents of kidnapping for ransom rose sharply in the first quarter of the year and some of the victims were foreign nationals, according to an anti-crime movement.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Foundation for Crime Prevention has put up “Club 117” that empowers ordinary citizens to report crimes, fires, accidents and other emergencies via text or by calling the police hotline “117.”