{"id":132123,"date":"2017-11-18T00:28:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T05:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=132123"},"modified":"2017-11-18T00:28:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T05:28:46","slug":"bato-lauds-drilon-proposal-to-realign-drug-budget-to-pnp-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/18\/bato-lauds-drilon-proposal-to-realign-drug-budget-to-pnp-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bato&#8217; lauds Drilon proposal to realign drug budget to PNP housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88839\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16386966_1429383027102949_7293141530011144982_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88839\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16386966_1429383027102949_7293141530011144982_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald \u201cBato\u201d Dela Rosa (Photo: Philippine National Police\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16386966_1429383027102949_7293141530011144982_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16386966_1429383027102949_7293141530011144982_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16386966_1429383027102949_7293141530011144982_n-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald \u201cBato\u201d Dela Rosa (Photo: Philippine National Police\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald &#8220;Bato&#8221; dela Rosa on Friday lauded the proposal of Senate Minority leader Franklin Drilon to realign the PHP1.4-billion anti-illegal drug campaign budget to build more housing units for policemen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Napakalaki ng pasalamat at paghanga ko kay Senator Drilon sa kanyang proposal. Talagang humahanga ako sa kanya kahapon dahil after all, kahit he is a critic of the PNP sa war on drugs but yun pala tinitingnan nya pa rin yung kabutihan ng ating kapulisan<\/em>\u00a0(I thank Senator Drilon for his proposal. I admire him because even though he has criticized the PNP over the war on drugs, he still looks after the welfare of the police),&#8221; dela Rosa said.<\/p>\n<p>The PNP chief, however, said he is more inclined to support the proposal of Senator JV Ejercito to realign the money intended for the police anti-drug campaign to anti-terrorism efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>(That) is okay rin naman sa amin dahil we cannot afford to have a repeat of the Marawi siege. Kaya sana kung maibigay yung pera na yan, itutok na natin yan sa counter-terrorism<\/em>\u00a0(That is also okay with us because we cannot afford to have a repeat of the Marawi siege. Once the fund is there, allocate it for counter-terrorism),&#8221; dela Rosa added.<\/p>\n<p>If given a choice on which campaign to prioritize, the PNP chief said he prefers to cater to safety and security, which are the country\u2019s more pressing needs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I prefer more the proposal to have it diverted towards the anti-terrorism campaign of the PNP,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte earlier ordered the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to take the lead role in the conduct of the government\u2019s anti-drug operations.<em><strong>\u00a0(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014\u00a0Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald &#8220;Bato&#8221; dela Rosa on Friday lauded the proposal of Senate Minority leader &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[13659,18681,19488],"class_list":["post-132123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-director-general-ronald-bato-dela-rosa","tag-philippine-national-police-pnp","tag-senate-minority-leader-franklin-drilon","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132123","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=132123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}