{"id":70249,"date":"2016-02-07T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70249"},"modified":"2016-02-07T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T13:51:10","slug":"comelec-gun-ban-violators-now-at-746-pnp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/07\/comelec-gun-ban-violators-now-at-746-pnp\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec gun ban violators now at 746\u2014PNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65578\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled design\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Sunday announced the arrest of more than 700 persons for violating the gun ban in line with the country&#8217;s national and local election.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Superintendent Wilben Mayor, PNP spokesman, said as of 8:00 a.m. Sunday, 746 persons have been apprehended for carrying firearms since the implementation of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban on January 10.<\/p>\n<p>The said figures include 711 civilians, five police officers, 11 government officials, 12 security guards, five employees of a law enforcement agency, and two members of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit, Mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the PNP confiscated 592 firearms, 4,609 deadly weapons, 25 grenades, seven other explosives, 21 firearm replicas, 212 bladed\/pointed weapons and 4,344 ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The gun ban is being implemented by the PNP and other law enforcement agencies in line with the country&#8217;s national and local elections on May 9. It started on January 10 and will last until June 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[PNP chief], Police Director General Ricardo Marquez, assures that the PNP will remain vigilant in its law enforcement and security operations to ensure safe and fair election,\u201d Mayor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Sunday announced the arrest of more than 700 persons for violating the gun ban &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-70249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70249","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=70249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}