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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 27) Both houses of Congress are suspending their scheduled legislative inquiries into the deadly shootout between police personnel and narcotics agents to allow the National Bureau of Investigation to take charge of the probe as requested by President Rodrigo Duterte.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque told CNN Philippines on Saturday that the President asked lawmakers to allow NBI s sole investigation into the exchange of fire between Quezon City police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives near the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant on Commonwealth Avenue on Wednesday. Four people were killed, including two cops, one PDEA agent, and one informant.
PNP-PDEA shootout emphasizes need for CCTVs in all roads, says partylist solon mb.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mb.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published February 25, 2021, 8:05 PM
A bill approved on second reading by the House of Representatives a day before the bloody Quezon City shootout between operatives of two law enforcement units will have to be amended if found necessary as a result of the “misencounter” on Wednesday, February 24.
(Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers’ Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Approved Tuesday, House Bill 7814 seeks to plug legal loopholes that have served as stumbling blocks in government’s successful implementation of the anti-drug war.
House Bill 7814 contains amendments to Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Act of 2002.
Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said several legal issues and controversies in the conduct of anti-drug operations surfaced as a result of Thursday’s “misencounter” between Quezon City police operatives and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency that resulted to the death of four persons, three of them belo
Lower House members eye legislative inquiry into PNP-PDEA misencounter – Manila Bulletin mb.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mb.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.