{"id":108073,"date":"2017-07-25T04:41:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T08:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=108073"},"modified":"2017-07-25T04:41:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T08:41:36","slug":"chinese-rifles-now-being-distributed-to-pnp-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/25\/chinese-rifles-now-being-distributed-to-pnp-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese rifles now being distributed to PNP personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_108086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108086\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PNP-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108086\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/PNP-2.png\" alt=\"PNP has started the distribution of the rifles earlier donated by the People's Republic of China to the Philippine government. (PNA photo)\" width=\"200\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PNP has started the distribution of the rifles earlier donated by the People&#8217;s Republic of China to the Philippine government.<br \/>(PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, July 25 &#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) has started the distribution of the rifles earlier donated by the People&#8217;s Republic of China to the Philippine government.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by PNP head Director General Ronald &#8220;Bato&#8221; Dela Rosa who said that the weapons are now being distributed to units in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Distribution started shortly after the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) formally transferred the guns to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Rosa said these weapons are urgently needed by police officers in the ground hence the quick distribution.<\/p>\n<p>The donation consists of 3,000 assault rifles and 90 long-range rifles along with millions of bullets.<\/p>\n<p>All of these items, except 100 rifles, are now in the PNP inventory.<\/p>\n<p>The PNP chief said the remaining weapons will be examined by the AFP&#8217;s research and development branch to determine on whether these rifles are ideal for the use of Filipino military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>These weapons and ammunition were formally handed over by the Chinese government to the Philippines last June 28 and worth around 50 million yuan.<\/p>\n<p>The arms and ammunition was delivered at the Harrison Landing Zone, Clark Freeport, on board a two-cargo Ilyushin IL-76 military plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, July 25 &#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) has started the distribution of the rifles earlier donated by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[9418,19793],"class_list":["post-108073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-pnp","tag-riffles","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}