{"id":124328,"date":"2017-10-16T21:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=124328"},"modified":"2017-10-16T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:34:34","slug":"police-reminds-toy-gun-ban-in-san-pablo-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/16\/police-reminds-toy-gun-ban-in-san-pablo-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Police reminds toy gun ban in San Pablo City"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_124332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124332\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6165054375_7f8f431afb_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124332\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6165054375_7f8f431afb_z.jpg\" alt=\"Police Sr. Insp. Julius B. Almeda, San Pablo City police station\u2019s investigation division chief, is advising city folks who have plans of giving Christmas gifts for children to avoid toy guns. (Photo by davitydave\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6165054375_7f8f431afb_z.jpg 478w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6165054375_7f8f431afb_z-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Sr. Insp. Julius B. Almeda, San Pablo City police station\u2019s investigation division chief, is advising city folks who have plans of giving Christmas gifts for children to avoid toy guns. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dlytle\/6165054375\/in\/photolist-aoMvSX-6hjEvW-nVFz7B-ocSjRr-oeX4Ez-nKZyLM-odavLT-ocSPse-9bybo6-VZRqLe-6HwkYb-9oQUd3-MbESr-86udsv-7y9nrb-86ugkk-7qpKDn-7ZBp9H-8w64xS-U1Nhnf-V6yBUt-U4CQN8-ph11Uz-U1NfiW-5F2enA-74nArb-4NoQ34-ThPMjK-K2EU2-Fv2ib-2WBQp-pouLyP-ijyAVB-CXDd2-RCeQvU-gHt95y-86ujGX-6dC9wf-bHUFD4-TXvjuE-5gKLPj-93nTBT-V6yBEk-6fj945-6Vz8C4-8nmzni-j1S1WD-5xJQdz-drUFcQ-U4CPfZ\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dlytle\/\" target=\"_blank\">davitydave\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SAN PABLO CITY, Laguna \u2013 City residents have been reminded that toy guns are a no-no as Christmas gifts for children, according to a police official on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police Sr. Insp. Julius B. Almeda, San Pablo City police station\u2019s investigation division chief, is advising city folks who have plans of giving Christmas gifts for children to avoid toy guns.<\/p>\n<p>The police official also cautioned traders preparing their stock inventory for\u00a0 Christmas sale to \u201cnever sell any toy gun or the replica of any firearm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City Ordinance No. 2000\u201302 prohibits or bans the manufacture, selling, distribution and carrying of toy guns.<\/p>\n<p>He said the city ordinance was enacted on Feb. 14, 2000 by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (city legislative council) that prohibits toy guns after police blotters, law enforcement journals, and even CCTV-captured incidents revealed toy guns and firearms replica had been used by criminals during robbery, hold-up, hostage-taking and theft cases.<\/p>\n<p>The police official added that the local measure aims to stop the practice of converting or recycling metallic toy guns into \u201cpaltik\u201d using live bullets or pellets.<\/p>\n<p>Under the local law, cops have to remind sidewalk vendors, hawkers, stall holders, market tenants and traders, shops and malls to avoid displaying and selling toy guns or replicas of firearms.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance also directs law enforcers to confiscate these banned or prohibited items from the manufacturers, producers, sellers and traders. (Ruben E. Taningco\/PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN PABLO CITY, Laguna \u2013 City residents have been reminded that toy guns are a no-no as Christmas gifts for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":124332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[729,28089,28088],"class_list":["post-124328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-police","tag-san-pablo-city","tag-toy-gun-ban","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124328","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=124328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}