by magnolia_eic | Mar 2, 2011 | Headlines, National News
THE Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Bureau of Investigation are working to
get the medical and dental records of 11 Filipinos still missing in the magnitude-6.3 quake
that hit New Zealand last month.
Officials from the DFA and NBI requested the relatives of the missing Filipinos for fingerprint
and dental records so a Philippine Embassy team can help identify bodies, or survivors,
recovered from the rubble.
“[Philippine] Charge d’Affaires (CDA) in Wellington Giovanni Palec has reported the New
Zealand police are gathering pieces of evidence including personal belongings to verify
identities – through DNA testing – those who perished. New Zealand authorities would not
release the identities of those who perished unless and until they have recovered the bodies
and verified their identities,” the DFA said in a news release posted on its website.
The Philippine Embassy team in Christchurch and the DFA’s Office of the Undersecretary
for Migrant Workers Affairs (OUMWA) are presently coordinating with the NBI in Manila to
facilitate and gather the records.
So far, the DFA-OUMWA has forwarded to Christchurch the information about the missing
Filipinos that it gathered from the DFA Office of Consular Affairs database.
For its part, the Embassy team is directly and regularly in touch with the relatives of the 11
Filipinos who remain missing. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 31, 2010 | Headlines, National News
Manila, Philippines — The Palace has ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation to stop issuing statements about the hostage incident and to let the Department of Justice (DoJ) do the talking.
Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said only Justice Secretary Leila de Lima would be allowed to brief the media and the public on the developments in the investigation being conducted by an inter-agency body headed by the DoJ.
Lacierda said the order was De Lima’s idea meant to avoid confusion.
The order came a day after the PNP, through spokesman Sr. Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr., said all tourists were killed by the hostage taker and not by fire from the members of the Manila Police S.W.A.T. team. Cruz cited initial forensic analysis on spent shells recovered inside the bus where the hostages were held.
by magnolia_eic | Jul 10, 2010 | Headlines, National News
SI kanhi police director Magtanggol Gatdula ang gitudlo nga bag-ong pangulo sa National Bureau of Investigation kon NBI.
Gipahayag kini ni Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. atol sa salo-salo uban sa Malacañang Press Corps niadtong Huwebes sa gabii.
Si Gatdula ni retiro gikan sa police force niadtong Hunyo 3 human nahimong pangulo sa Directorate for Information, Communications, and Technology Management sa Philippine National Police kon PNP.
Una niini, nahimo siyang Quezon City police chief gikan tuig 2006 hangtud 2009.
Ni alagad siya og 37 ka tuig sa militar ug sa police human natapos gikan sa Philippine Military Academy niadtong tuig 1976 kauban ni PNP Director-General Jesus Verzosa.
Usa ka abogado si Gatdula. Nakapasar siya sa bar examinations niadtong tuig 1984 human sa pagtuon sa abogasya sa University of the East. Nakahuman usab siya sa masters degree in Public Administration ug usa ka doctorate sa Peace and Security Administration.
Gradwado usab si Gatdula gikan sa Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy sa Quantico, Virginia. Nikuha usab siya og ubang kurso sa law enforcement sa mga nasud sa United States, Australia, Thailand, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom ug Singapore. (PIA-Bohol)
