{"id":168772,"date":"2018-07-02T05:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168772"},"modified":"2018-07-02T05:16:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:16:43","slug":"pnp-forms-task-group-to-probe-tanauan-city-mayors-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/02\/pnp-forms-task-group-to-probe-tanauan-city-mayors-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP forms task group to probe Tanauan City mayor&#8217;s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_166632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166632\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Oscar-Albayalde.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166632\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Oscar-Albayalde.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippine National Police (PNP) formed a special investigation task group (SITG) to look into the killing of Mayor Antonio Halili who was shot dead during Monday's flag-raising ceremonies at the Tanauan City hall in Batangas. (Photo: Philippine National Police\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Oscar-Albayalde.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Oscar-Albayalde-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Oscar-Albayalde-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine National Police (PNP) formed a special investigation task group (SITG) to look into the killing of Mayor Antonio Halili who was shot dead during Monday&#8217;s flag-raising ceremonies at the Tanauan City hall in Batangas.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pnp.pio\/photos\/a.2071265769581335.1073742130.462115693829692\/2071268276247751\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\"> (Photo: Philippine National Police\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) formed a special investigation task group (SITG) to look into the killing of Mayor Antonio Halili who was shot dead during Monday&#8217;s flag-raising ceremonies at the Tanauan City hall in Batangas.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to newsmen, PNP chief Director General Oscar Albayalde clarified that they are still awaiting the official report on the incident and will await the SITG report.<\/p>\n<p>The police chief described as assumptions, unverified reports that a high-powered rifle was used by a lone gunman who managed to escape after the 8 a.m. incident at the New City Hall, Barangay Natatas, Tanauan City.<\/p>\n<p>He was brought to the CP Reyes Medical Center where he was declared dead on arrival by the attending physician, Dr. Alexandrix Carandang.<\/p>\n<p>Albayalde also clarified that it had been the decision of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the National Police Commission (Napolcom) to officially recall Halili&#8217;s powers over local police officers last December.<\/p>\n<p>The PNP chief pointed out that despite the Napolcom directive, the PNP is still duty bound to work &#8220;to maintain peace and security&#8221; of all persons in their respective areas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Department of Justice said it is ready to provide assistance to the PNP in solving the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll let the police do the investigation (for now). I will direct the NBI to get involved as may be warranted by circumstances,&#8221; Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) formed a special investigation task group (SITG) to look into the killing of Mayor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":166632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[18681,51431],"class_list":["post-168772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-philippine-national-police-pnp","tag-pnp-chief-director-general-oscar-albayalde","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168772","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=168772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}