{"id":15921,"date":"2014-06-19T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15921"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:10:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T02:10:45","slug":"pnp-activates-composite-anti-crime-task-force-vs-high-profile-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/19\/pnp-activates-composite-anti-crime-task-force-vs-high-profile-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP activates composite anti-crime task force vs high-profile crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">MANILA &#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday created a national composite anti-crime unit that will handle the investigation of high-profile crime incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The move is in line with the instructions of President Benigno S Aquino III for the DILG-PNP to stem criminality, accentuated by the recent high-profile murder cases in Quezon City, Davao City, Bohol, Pangasinan, and Batangas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">PNP chief, Director General Alan L Purisima, announced this Wednesday in Camp Crame and designated CIDG chief, Director Benjamin Magalong, to head the newly-created unit. Support components of the task force are the PNP Intelligence Group, Crime Laboratory, and other PNP National Support and Line Units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Purisima said the Task Force will perform the adhoc function of addressing major crime incidents that require coordinated investigative, intelligence, legal and tactical actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">To complement the investigative efforts of the anti-crime unit, he directed Police Regional Offices to intensify intelligence-driven and focused patrol and checkpoint operations in crime-prone areas based on data determined by the crime clock and crime map.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The DILG will augment the intelligence funds required to support the operations of the Task Force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Purisima added that other complementing actions initiated by DILG-PNP include the activation of a text and call hotline for confidential information; convening of the PNP Rewards Committee; and the implementation of CCTV requirement for business establishments particularly convenience stores, bank, pawnshops, money changer shops, and remittance and payment centers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday created a national composite anti-crime unit that will handle the investigation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[5619,9418],"class_list":["post-15921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-anti-crime-task-force","tag-pnp","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-t-caliwan","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}