{"id":220615,"date":"2019-06-27T18:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220615"},"modified":"2019-06-27T18:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:51:39","slug":"pnp-continues-to-curb-all-illegal-numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/27\/pnp-continues-to-curb-all-illegal-numbers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP continues to curb all illegal numbers game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe PNP will continue to enforce the law against illegal numbers games, particularly \u2018jueteng\u2019, \u2018masiao\u2019, and \u2018Last 2\u2019 as provided under the law,\u201d PNP spokesperson, Col. Bernard Banac, said in a statement Thursday. (File Photo:<\/a> Philippine National Police\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— The Philippine National Police (PNP) will continue to fulfill its responsibility to eradicate all forms of illegal numbers game in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PNP will continue to enforce the law against illegal numbers games, particularly \u2018jueteng\u2019, \u2018masiao\u2019, and \u2018Last 2\u2019 as provided under the law,\u201d PNP spokesperson, Col. Bernard Banac, said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

Banac was referring to Presidential Decree 1602, as amended by Republic Act 9287.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have observed in the past decades that when the PNP went all out against \u2018jueteng\u2019 during its peak, street-level \u2018jueteng\u2019 activities evolved into illegal drugs trade because some displaced \u2018jueteng\u2019 workers had no other alternative source of livelihood, aside from the fact that drug trafficking is more profitable than \u2018jueteng\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Banac noted that the police cannot afford to be remiss in its duty to enforce the law against both illegal gambling and illegal drugs.
\nHe, however, said that the PNP leadership understands why President Rodrigo Duterte wants the police to focus more on illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe submit to the wisdom of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in his expression of preference to \u2018jueteng\u2019 than to drug trafficking as a means of livelihood by some people among the poorest sectors of society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, the PNP will continue to support the regulated numbers game operations of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office through the Small Town Lottery as a legalized alternative to \u2018jueteng\u2019,\u201d Banac added.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Duterte said he would let \u201cjueteng\u201d operations continue for now, tagging it as \u201clesser evil\u201d compared to illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

Illegal gambling, particularly \u201cjueteng\u201d has been a perennial headache of the police due to rampant corruption that comes with their operation.<\/p>\n

Several politicians and policemen have been accused in the past of receiving money from \u201cjueteng\u201d operators, either on a weekly or monthly basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— The Philippine National Police (PNP) will continue to fulfill its responsibility to eradicate all forms of illegal numbers game …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":212634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220615","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=220615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220616,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220615\/revisions\/220616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}