Efficiency key to fighting crime
By Ramon TulfoThere will be fewer crime incidents this year if the chiefs of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will carry out their plans to the letter.
There will be fewer crime incidents this year if the chiefs of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will carry out their plans to the letter.
The Quirino environment official who was murdered on January 1 had always felt bad over setbacks that his office’s campaign against illegal logging suffered in the hands of government prosecutors, his colleagues said on Thursday.
A senator and environment officials expressed outrage over the murder of environment officer Alfredo Almueda, linking his killing to the continued defiance of logging operators of an executive order (EO) issued by President Benigno Aquino.

A Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) official in the province was shot and killed on Tuesday by two men at a DENR checkpoint in Maddela town, police and DENR officials said.

A 59-year-old forester died on the spot on January 1 at 12:30 a.m., when he was gunned down with an armalite rifle by still unidentified men as he was trying to prevent the entry of a wood-loaded truck at a checkpoint in Barangay (village) San Pedro in Maddela, Quirino, sketchy reports from local police and environment officials, said.