{"id":161230,"date":"2018-04-23T06:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161230"},"modified":"2018-04-23T06:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:17:47","slug":"comelec-urges-pnp-to-strictly-enforce-poll-checkpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/23\/comelec-urges-pnp-to-strictly-enforce-poll-checkpoints\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec urges PNP to strictly enforce poll checkpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_161231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161231\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0-02-06-8d15dd99caf11ffc35b8fdae8404d947d2492c5d873ace9837a408299fe89736_full_5addac29918409_77812704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161231\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0-02-06-8d15dd99caf11ffc35b8fdae8404d947d2492c5d873ace9837a408299fe89736_full_5addac29918409_77812704.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cWe want a strict implementation of the checkpoints in accordance with our established guidelines and protocols,\u201d said acting Comelec Chairman Al Parre\u00f1o in an interview Monday. (PNA photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWe want a strict implementation of the checkpoints in accordance with our established guidelines and protocols,\u201d said acting Comelec Chairman Al Parre\u00f1o in an interview Monday. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) asked the Philippine National Police (PNP) to rigorously implement checkpoints after the number of \u201chotspots\u201d have been identified for the May 14 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want a strict implementation of the checkpoints in accordance with our established guidelines and protocols,\u201d said acting Comelec Chairman Al Parre\u00f1o in an interview Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that they are no longer surprised regarding the thousands of poll \u201chotspots\u201d based on their past experiences in connection with the holding of village and youth polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the barangay (and SK) elections, usually there are more incidents being monitored,\u201d the poll body chief said.<\/p>\n<p>Parre\u00f1o explained that it is because the aspirants in the forthcoming elections are living and from the same community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe candidates are just in the same area and live in the same barangay so more incidents will have to be monitored,\u201d said Parre\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the PNP announced that there are 7,544 election hotspots throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>These areas were identified as those which had recent incidents of poll-related violence in the past years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) asked the Philippine National Police (PNP) to rigorously implement checkpoints after the number of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":161231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[50165,20303,18681,37226],"class_list":["post-161230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-chairman-al-parreno","tag-commission-on-elections-comelec","tag-philippine-national-police-pnp","tag-sangguniang-kabataan-sk","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161230","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=161230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}