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With the Senate now conducting hearings on Senate Bill No. 1302, which seeks to extend the legislative franchise of Smart, the wireless subsidiary of PLDT, Inc., Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III is urging the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to step in and direct the country’s telcos to adopt Mobile Number Portabilty (MNP) to spur […]
Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III wants to bolster the police’s crime-fighting capabilities and discipline among the ranks through a “Balikatan-type” agreement with countries known to have advanced crime-solving and -fighting techniques. Pimentel, in a press statement today, did not rule out the United States, but said the annual military exercises between the US and […]
Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III today called for an immediate stop to Camp Crame’s practice of re-assigning erring policemen to Mindanao, because “the South is deserving of honest and disciplined lawmen like the rest of the country.” Pimentel said the Philippine National Police (PNP) should file administrative cases against the erring lawmen so that […]
Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, author of the NBI Modernization law, said the National Bureau of Investigation is “squandering a precious opportunity” to become an “effective, modern, and competent investigative body” as envisioned in the law he sponsored modernizing the agency. The involvement of ranking NBI officials in the kidnap-slay of Korean businessman Jee […]