{"id":244923,"date":"2020-02-14T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T06:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=244923"},"modified":"2025-01-10T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:15:03","slug":"police-official-criticized-for-grabbing-reporters-phone-promoted-to-ncrpos-2nd-highest-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/14\/police-official-criticized-for-grabbing-reporters-phone-promoted-to-ncrpos-2nd-highest-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Police official criticized for grabbing reporter&#8217;s phone promoted to NCRPO&#8217;s 2nd highest position"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244924\" style=\"width: 3300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Nolasco-Bathan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244924\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Nolasco-Bathan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3300\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Nolasco-Bathan.jpg 3300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Nolasco-Bathan-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Nolasco-Bathan-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Nolasco-Bathan-1024x745.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3300px) 100vw, 3300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: SORRY. Southern Police District (SPD) Director, Brig. Gen. Nolasco Bathan, appeals to the media not to sensationalize the incident between him and GMA-7 news reporter Jun Veneracion as he already made a public apology for snatching the latter\u2019s phone during the Traslacion on Thursday. In a press briefing held at Police Station 10 in Kamuning, Quezon City on Friday (Jan. 10, 2020), Bathan said he thought Veneracion was someone who posed a threat during the procession of the Black Nazarene. (PNA photo by Oliver Marquez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">It was only a week after he was promoted but Police Brigadier General Nolasco Bathan, the cop who drew criticisms for &#8220;snatching&#8221; a television reporter&#8217;s phone during the coverage of Traslacion 2020, ascended again to another position \u2014 the second-highest in the Metro Manila police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This, after an order dated February 12 named Bathan as deputy regional director for administration of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), a promotion effective on February 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bathan will be replacing Brigadier General Herminio Tadeo, Jr., who was promoted as the director of the\u00a0 Philippine National Police&#8217;s (PNP&#8217;s) Health Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to a GMA report, PNP spokesman Police Brigadier General Bernad Banac said Bathan got the position because he was next in line in seniority in the NCRPO Command Group.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy strattera online <a href=\"https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/strattera.html\">https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/strattera.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bathan&#8217;s promotion came after he was designated as the NCRPO\u2019s deputy regional director for operations last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/08\/controversial-cop-who-confiscated-journalists-phone-in-traslacion-gets-promoted\/\">READ: Controversial cop who confiscated journalist\u2019s phone in Traslacion gets promoted<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The cop earlier drew the ire of some netizens after GMA reporter Jun Veneracion shared his encounter with the officer on his Facebook account where he narrated that Bathan &#8220;snatched&#8221; his phone while he was taking a video of a Black Nazarene devotee being surrounded by cops during the Traslacion last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The journalist claimed that the video was deleted after finding it on the &#8220;recently deleted photo album&#8221; feature of his phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bathan then apologized to Veneracion, explaining that he did not recognize the reporter.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy trazodone online <a href=\"https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/trazodone.html\">https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/trazodone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a Facebook post on February 10, Veneracion clarified that he has not yet submitted any affidavit against Bathan, but the NCRPO&#8217;s Regional Internal Affairs Service &#8220;unexpectedly decided to &#8216;resolve its investigation,&#8217; as announced by the chief of the NCRPO.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Closing the probe without considering the incontrovertible facts is a classic example of turning a blind eye. The infractions made on the 9th of January were as clear as day,&#8221; the journalist said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Deep down, to be very blunt about it, I really didn\u2019t expect much from a flawed system. But to hand down a mere slap on the wrist is tantamount to a slap in the face for the aggrieved,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zocor online <a href=\"https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/zocor.html\">https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/zocor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a week after he was promoted but Police Brigadier General Nolasco Bathan, the cop who drew criticisms &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":244924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244923","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=244923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282447,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244923\/revisions\/282447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}