The Standard - 2016 July 5 - Tuesday

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VOL. XXX NO. 143 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 TUESDAY : JULY 5, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Beijing wants ruling set aside

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BAD COPS DEPLOY TO ABU HOT SPOTS PNP crackdown includes surprise drug tests By Francisco Tuyay, Rio N. Araja and Florante S. Solmerin

AT LEAST 20 policemen facing various criminal charges will be sent to Mindanao to battle the Abu Sayyaf and other bandits, National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa said Monday.

“I will send them to Sulu, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi to fight the Abu Sayyaf,” said Dela Rosa, three days after vowing to impose strict discipline against scalawags in the police force. He declined to identify the policemen, however. “Not all of them are involved in drugs. There [are] cops that were re-

ceiving money from syndicates that must be attended to,” Dela Rosa said. The reassignments will begin in batches this month, he said. Earlier, Dela Rosa gave policemen linked to drugs 48 hours to surrender. At least 2,405 policemen including 75 senior police officials were subjected to a surprise drug test at

the conference area of the Philippine National Police main building Friday night. Nine policemen tested positive for drugs in the first round. A second test showed two more. Dela Rosa said the PNP would conduct further tests to confirm the results, since some policemen were on medication. Next page

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director Isidro Lapeña (left) with PNP Chief Dir. Gen. Ronald dela Rosa and Anti-Illegal Drug Group Supt. Albert Ferro present 180 kilos of shabu worth P900 million that was confiscated from Cagayan Valley during a press conference in Camp Crame on Monday. MANNY PALMERO

More poor as Aquino leaves

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Duterte’s 1st executive order reorganizes OP By John Paolo Bencito PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Monday issued his first executive order reorganizing the Office of the President to make it “more responsive in attaining development goals.” Under the new clustering, Secretary to the Cabinet Leoncio Evasco will supervise 12 line agencies under the

OP, including the Cooperative Development Authority, the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, the National Anti-Poverty Commission, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos, National Youth Commission, the Office of the President-Presidential Action Center, the Philippine Commis-

sion on Women, and the Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor. The National Food Authority and the Philippine Coconut Authority— two agencies under the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Food Security and Agricultural Modernization in the previous administration, will remain under the control of the Office of the Next page President.


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