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Application for gun ban exemption commences on June 5

Electronic filing required for firearms applications during election period in connection with the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections this October, says Comelec.

In a resolution released on Saturday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced that applications for the issuance of a Certificate of Authority to carry firearms must be electronically filed before the Committee on the Ban on Firearms and Security Concerns (CBFSC) from June 5 to November 15.

The resolution, promulgated on May 17, stated that the filing of applications should be done through electronic means, leveraging the advancements in information technology. This approach aims to ensure efficient government service delivery and address logistical challenges in some regions, while prioritizing mutual safety in the new normal. Applicants can file their applications through the Comelec website at www.comelec.gov.ph.

The gun ban exemption list includes high-ranking officials such as the President, Vice President, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Senate President, incumbent senators, House of Representatives Speaker, members of the House, and justices of various courts. Judges, Ombudsman officials and staff, prosecutors, and agents of investigative agencies are also exempted. Cabinet Secretaries, Election Officers, Provincial Election Supervisors, and Regional Election Directors are given automatic exemption as well.

During the election period, the gun ban prohibits the bearing, carrying, and transport of firearms and other deadly weapons. Violation of the gun ban is considered an election offense, which carries a penalty of one to six years of imprisonment without the possibility of probation. Additionally, it results in the loss of the offender’s right to vote and perpetual disqualification from holding public office.

The CBFSC, responsible for overseeing the ban, is composed of a Comelec commissioner as chairperson, along with senior officers from the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines as members. Various officers and members from law enforcement agencies, departments, divisions, and other public institutions are also exempted from the gun ban.

Researchers say Italy’s ‘once in a century’ deadly floods are connected to the climate crisis

ROME. The floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in Italy’s northeast are another drenching dose of climate change’s all-or-nothing weather extremes, something that has been happening around the globe, scientists say.

The coastal region of Emilia-Romagna was struck twice, first by heavy rain two weeks ago on drought-parched ground that could not absorb it, causing rivers to overflow overnight, followed by this week’s deluge that killed 14 and caused damages estimated in the billions of euros.

In a changing climate, more rain is coming, but it’s falling on fewer days in less useful and more dangerous downpours.

The hard-hit Emilia-Romagna region was particularly vulnerable. Its location between the Apennine mountains and the Adriatic Sea trapped the weather system this week that dumped half the average annual amount of rain in 36 hours.

“These are events that developed with persistence and are classified as rare,″ Fabrizio Curcio, the head of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency, told reporters.

Authorities on Friday said that 43 towns were impacted by flooding and landslides, and that more than 500 roads had been closed or destroyed.

Antonello Pasini, a climate scientist at Italy’s National Research Council, said a trend had been establishing itself: “An increase in rainfall overall per year, for example, but a decrease in the number of rainy days and an increase in the intensity of the rain in those few days when it rains,” he said.

Italy’s north has been parched by two years of drought, thanks to less-than-average snowfall during the winter months. Melting snow from the Alps, Dolomites and Apennines normally provides the steady runoff through spring and summer that fills Italy’s lakes, irrigates the agricultural heartland and keeps the Po and other key rivers and tributaries flowing.

Without that normal snowfall in the mountains, plains have gone dry and riverbeds, lakes and reservoirs have receded. They cannot recover even when it rains because the ground is essentially “impermeable” and the rain just washes over the topsoil and out to the sea, Pasini said.

“So the drought is not necessarily compensated for by these extreme rains,” he said, “Because in northern Italy, the drought depends more on snow being stored in the Alps than on rain. And in the last two years, we have had very little snow.”

Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said the new normal of extreme weather events in the Mediterranean requires Italians to adapt and Italy to rethink its flood protections nationwide. He cited a fierce storm-triggered landslide last fall on the southern island of Ischia, off Naples, that left 12 dead.

“We can’t just pretend that nothing is happening,” he said Thursday. “Everything must change: the programming in hydraulic infrastructures must change, the engineering approach must change.”

He said those changes were necessary to prevent the types of floods that have left entire towns swamped with mud after two dozen rivers burst their banks.

The key going forward is prevention, he said, acknowledging that’s not an easy sell due to costs.

“We are not a nation inclined to prevention. We like to rebuild more than to prevent,” he told Sky TG24.

Italy is far from alone in lurching from dry to deluge. California and the United States West sloshed their way from a record-setting megadrought to at least a dozen atmospheric rivers dousing the region with so much rain that a long-dormant lake reappeared.

Scientists say flash floods of the kind seen in Germany and Belgium two years ago, which killed more than 220 people and caused billions of euros in damage, will become more likely as the planet warms.

“The rainiest events seem to be in many places getting rainier,” Princeton University climate scientist Gabe Vecchi said Thursday.

In 2021, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientific panel said it was “established fact” that humans’ greenhouse gas emissions had made for more frequent and intense weather extremes. The panel called heat waves the most obvious, but said heavy precipitation events had also likely increased over most of the world.

The U.N. report said “there is robust evidence” that record rainfall and one-in-five, one-in-10 and one-in-20 year type rainfall “became more common since the 1950s.”

This story was first published on apnews.com

A couple walk through a flooded road of Lugo, Italy, May 18, 2023. The floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in Italy’s northeast are another soggy dose of climate change’s all-or-nothing weather extremes, something that has been happening around the globe, scientists say. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

2 estudyante, inatake ng saksak sa harap ng kanilang paaralan

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LAUREL, Batangas. Dalawang estudyante ang nagtamo ng mga sugat matapos ang isang insidente ng pananaksak na naganap sa harap ng kanilang paaralan sa bayang ito noong Biyernes ng hapon.

Ang dalawang biktima, na pansamantalang itinatago ang mga pangalan habang nagsasagawa ng imbestigasyon ay parehong nag-aaral sa hindi pinangalanan na paaralan ay edad 17 at 14.

Ayon sa ulat ng Police Regional Office CALABARZON, naganap ang insidente sa Brgy. Poblacion 1 ng nasabing bayan, bandang 5:25 ng hapon noong Biyernes.

Nangyari ang insidente habang nakaupo ang dalawang biktima sa harap ng kanilang paaralan ng biglang dumating ang suspek na kilalang si Ronel de Millo, 30-anyos at nagsimulang magtalo ang tatlo.

Sa gitna ng pagtatalo, bigla bumunot ng patalim si Millo at inundayan ng saksak ang mga biktima saka mabilis na tumakas.

Ang isa sa mga biktima ay tinamaan sa dibdib habang ang isa naman ay tinamaan sa ulo. Sila ay isinugod sa magkabukod na ospital sa Talisay at Batangas City at kasalukuyan pang ginagamot.

Kasalukuyang tinutugis ng mga tauhan ng Talisay Municipal Police Station ang tumakas na suspek.

Estudyanteng babae, sinaksak ng tinidor sa mukha ng kaklase

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NOVELETA, Cavite. Sa gitna ng pag-uusap ukol sa reklamong cyber bullying, nangyari ang isang marahas na insidente kung saan isang lalaking kaklase ay sinaksak ang isang dalagang estudyante.

Nagaganap ang nasabing pangyayari sa loob ng isang kilalang fast food chain sa Brgy. Magdiwang, sa bayang ito, kahapon ng hapon habang nag-uusap ang kanilang mga magulang upang ayusin ang isyu.

Kasalukuyang nasa St. Martins Hospital ang biktima na si Chelsy Honeylade, 21-anyos, residente ng Brgy. Navarro, Gen. Trias City, Cavite.

Nasa kustodiya na at maghahain ng kaso laban sa suspek na kinilalang si John Roy Virata, 21-anyos, ng T. Gomez Street, Caridad, Cavite City.

NASA picks Bezos’ Blue Origin to build lunar landers for moonwalkers

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after it lost out to SpaceX.

Blue Origin received a $3.4 billion contract Friday to lead a team to develop a lunar lander named Blue Moon. It will be used to transport astronauts to the lunar surface as early as 2029, following a pair of crew landings by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

NASA will get astronauts to lunar orbit using its own rockets and capsules, but wants private companies to take over from there.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the agency wants different landing options as it seeks a return to the moon more than a half-century after the end of the Apollo moonshots.

Blue Origin is kicking in billions of dollars, on top of the NASA contract, to help establish a permanent presence on the moon.

“We have a lot to do before we successfully land and return astronauts,” said John Couluris, a Blue Origin vice president.

Two years ago, Blue Origin sued after NASA awarded SpaceX the contract for the first lunar landing. A federal judge upheld the space agency’s decision.

NASA’s Artemis program, which follows the 1960s and 1970s Apollo moonshots. kicked off with a successful test flight late last year. Launched atop NASA’s new moon rocket, an empty Orion capsule went into lunar orbit before returning home.

The next Artemis flight will come late next year when one Canadian and three U.S. astronauts fly to the moon and back, but not land. Two Americans would descend to the lunar surface aboard a SpaceX Starship on the mission after that, no earlier than late 2025.

Like SpaceX, Blue Origin plans to practice landing on the moon without a crew, before putting astronauts on board.

While the shiny, stainless steel Starship has a science fiction look, Blue Moon resembles more of a traditional capsule perched atop a tall compartment with legs. The latter will stand 52 feet (16 meters) on the moon.

Both companies’ landers are meant to be reusable.

Blue Origin will use its still-in-development New Glenn rocket to launch its lunar missions from Cape Canaveral. Starship, the world’s largest rocket, made its debut last month from South Texas; the test flight ended in an explosive fireball a few minutes into flight.

Blue Origin’s team includes five partners: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper, Astrobotic Technology and Honeybee Robotics.

Only one other bid was submitted for the contract competition, according to NASA.

815 Pinoy na apektado ng visa ban sa Kuwait aayudahan ng tig-P30K

Inanunsiyo ng Kagawaran ng Mga Manggagawang Migrante (DMW) na tatanggap ng tulong pinansyal na nagkakahalaga ng ₱30,000 bawat isa sa 815 Pilipino na direktang naapektuhan ng kamakailang pagsuspinde ng pagbibigay ng visa sa Kuwait.

“Inaasahan nating makatutulong ito sa kanilang mga pamilya at maibabawas din ang ilan sa mga gastusin na kasama sa proseso ng kanilang aplikasyon,” sabi ni DMW Secretary Toots Ople sa isang press briefing.

Sinabi ni Ople na ang mga Pilipinong ito ay mayroon nang Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) at naghihintay na lamang ng kanilang mga flight patungong Kuwait. Sa 815 na naapektuhan, sinabi ni Ople na 514 sa kanila ay dapat umalis ng bansa bilang mga domestic worker na may karanasan.

Samantala, sinabi ni DMW Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac na magbibigay rin ang ahensya ng tulong pangkabuhayan at trabaho sa mga apektadong Pilipinong manggagawa.

“Habang kami ay nagsasalita, tinitingnan namin ang bawat apektadong manggagawa upang malaman ang kanilang mga kakayahan at kagustuhan sa trabaho,” aniya.

Nauna dito, kinumpirma ng Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) na maaari lamang pumasok sa Gulf countries ang mga Pilipino kung may balidong resident visa simula Mayo 10.

Hindi pa inilalantad ang mga dahilan ng visa ban ngunit sinabi ni DFA Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega na malamang na ito ay dahil sa kasunduan noong 2018 sa pagitan ng dalawang bansa na nagbibigay sa embahada ng Pilipinas ng karapatan na maging tirahan ng mga Pilipinong manggagawa na tumatakas sa kanilang mga employer.

Walang ibinunyag na mga detalye tungkol sa mga bilateral na usapan sa pamahalaan ng Kuwait na naganap mula Mayo 16 hanggang 17, subalit sinabi ni Ople na umaasa siya na malulutas ang suspensiyon sa pagbibigay ng visa sa Kuwait sa pinakamabilis na panahon.

Super typhoon Betty posibleng pumasok sa PH

Nagbabala ang Weather Bureau hinggil sa isang binabantayang tropical storm (TS) sa silangan ng Mindanao na maaaring maging isang super typhoon at pumasok sa Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) sa susunod na linggo.

Ang TS ay huling nakita 2,525 kilometro silangan ng Mindanao, labas pa rin ng PAR, at kasama sa Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) – isang lugar kung saan nagtatagpo ang hangin mula sa hilagang-silangan at timog-silangan upang magbunsod ng mga ulap at pag-ulan, ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).

May maximum sustained wind itong 45 kilometro bawat oras (kph) at pagbugso na 55 kph ang TS.

Kumikilos ito patungong hilaga sa 20 kph at inaasahang magpapatuloy sa hilagang-kanluran patungo sa Guam sa Linggo, at pagkatapos sa hilagang-kanluran sa Miyerkules.

Kapag patuloy ang paglalakbay nito patungong hilagang-kanluran, inaasahang papasok ito sa PAR sa Biyernes o Sabado ng susunod na linggo.

Kapag pumasok ang TS sa monitoring area ng bansa, ito ay bibigyan ng pangalang Betty, ang ikalawang tropical cyclone para sa taong 2023 at ang unang cyclone para sa buwan ng Mayo.

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy arrives in Hiroshima for G7 summit as world leaders sanction Russia

HIROSHIMA, Japan. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Saturday in Japan for talks with the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies, a personal appearance meant to galvanize global attention as the nations ratcheted up pressure on Moscow for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine.

Bolstering international support is a key priority as Ukraine prepares for what’s seen as a major push to take back territory seized by Russia in the war that began in February last year. Zelenskyy’s in-person visit to the G7 summit comes just hours after the United States agreed to allow training on potent American-made fighter jets, laying the groundwork for their eventual transfer to Ukraine.

Host nation Japan said Zelenskyy’s inclusion stems from his “strong wish” to participate in talks with the bloc and other countries that will influence his nation’s defense against Russia.

“Japan. G7. Important meetings with partners and friends of Ukraine. Security and enhanced cooperation for our victory. Peace will become closer today,” Zelenskyy tweeted upon his arrival on a plane provided by France.

A European Union official, speaking on condition of anonymity to brief reporters on the deliberations, said Zelenskyy will take part in two separate sessions Sunday. One session will be with G7 members only and will focus on the war in Ukraine. Another will include the G7 as well as the other nations invited to take part in the summit, and will focus on “peace and stability.”

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that President Joe Biden and Zelenskyy would have direct engagement at the summit. On Friday, Biden announced his support for training Ukrainian pilots on U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, a precursor to eventually providing those aircraft to Ukraine.

“It is necessary to improve (Ukraine’s) air defense capabilities, including the training of our pilots,” Zelenskyy wrote on his official Telegram channel after meeting Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, one of a number of leaders he talked to.

Zelenskyy also met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, their first face-to-face talks since the war, and briefed him on Ukraine’s peace plan, which calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the country before any negotiations.

Russia’s deputy defense minister, Alexander Grushko, accused Western countries of “continuing along the path of escalation,” following the announcements that raised the possibility of sending F-16s to Kyiv.

The G7 vowed to intensify the pressure in its joint statement Saturday.

“Russia’s brutal war of aggression represents a threat to the whole world in breach of fundamental norms, rules and principles of the international community. We reaffirm our unwavering support for Ukraine for as long as it takes to bring a comprehensive, just and lasting peace,” the group said.

G7 leaders have faced a balancing act as they look to address a raft of global worries demanding urgent attention, including climate change, AI, poverty and economic instability, nuclear proliferation and, above all, the war in Ukraine.

China, the world’s No. 2 economy, sits at the nexus of many of those concerns.

There is increasing anxiety that Beijing, which has been steadily building up its nuclear weapons program, could try to seize Taiwan by force, sparking a wider conflict. China claims the self-governing island as its own and regularly sends ships and warplanes near it.

The G7 on Saturday said they did not want to harm China and were seeking “constructive and stable relations” with Beijing, “recognizing the importance of engaging candidly with and expressing our concerns directly to China.”

They also urged China to pressure Russia to end the war in Ukraine and “support a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.”

North Korea, which has been testing missiles at a torrid pace, must completely abandon its nuclear bomb ambitions, “including any further nuclear tests or launches that use ballistic missile technology,” the leaders’ statement said.

The green light on F-16 training is the latest shift by the Biden administration as it moves to arm Ukraine with more advanced and lethal weaponry, following earlier decisions to send rocket launcher systems and Abrams tanks. The United States has insisted that it is sending weapons to Ukraine to defend itself and has discouraged attacks by Ukraine into Russian territory.

“We’ve reached a moment where it is time to look down the road again to say what is Ukraine going to need as part of a future force, to be able to deter and defend against Russian aggression as we go forward,” Sullivan said.

Biden’s decisions on when, how many, and who will provide the fourth-generation F-16 fighter jets will be made in the months ahead while the training is underway, Biden told leaders.

The G7 leaders have rolled out a new wave of global sanctions on Moscow as well as plans to enhance the effectiveness of existing financial penalties meant to constrain President Vladimir Putin’s war effort. Russia is now the most-sanctioned country in the world, but there are questions about the effectiveness.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida separately held one-on-one talks with leaders, including Modi, who is hosting the gathering of G20 world leaders later this year.

India, the world’s largest democracy, has been measured in its comments on the war in Ukraine, and has avoided outright condemnation of Russia’s invasion. While India maintains close ties with the U.S. and its Western allies, it is also a major buyer of Russian arms and oil.

The latest sanctions aimed at Russia include tighter restrictions on already-sanctioned people and firms involved in the war effort. More than 125 individuals and organizations across 20 countries have been hit with U.S. sanctions.

The leaders began the summit with a visit to a peace park dedicated to the tens of thousands who died in the world’s first wartime atomic bomb detonation. Kishida, who represents Hiroshima in parliament, wants nuclear disarmament to be a major focus of discussions.

The G7 leaders also discussed efforts to strengthen the global economy and address rising prices that are squeezing families and government budgets around the world, particularly in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The group reiterated its aim to pull together up to $600 billion in financing for the G7’s global infrastructure development initiative, which is meant to offer countries an alternative to China’s investment dollars.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni will skip the last day of the G7 because of floods earlier this week in northern Italy, which claimed at least 14 lives and devastated dozens of hamlets and towns.

“Biden, who scrapped plans to travel on to Papua New Guinea and Australia after his stay in Japan so that he can get back to debt limit talks in Washington, is also meeting with leaders of the so-called Quad partnership, made up of Japan, Australia, India and the United States.

The G7 includes Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Italy, as well as the European Union.

World leaders from G7 and invited countries, top row from left to right, Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Managing Director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva, European Council President Charles Michel, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. President Joe Biden, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency Fatih Birol. Bottom row from left to right, President of the World Bank David Malpass, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Comoros President Azali Assoumani, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and Director-General of the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala pose for a family photo of leaders of the G7 and invited countries during the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Hiroshima western Japan, Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)

Launch of “World No Tobacco Day 2023: Grow Food, Not Tobacco”

The World Health Organization (WHO) unveiled its latest publication, World No Tobacco Day 2023: Grow Food, Not Tobacco, on Friday. The report presents alarming data that sheds light on the global issue of hunger while countries prioritize tobacco cultivation over food production. Tobacco consumption is accountable for 8 million deaths annually, yet governments worldwide continue to allocate substantial funds to support tobacco farming.

Disturbingly, a staggering 349 million individuals across 79 countries are currently grappling with acute food insecurity. Among these countries, many are classified as low and middle-income, including over 30 nations within the African continent. Instead of utilizing their fertile lands to grow nutritious crops, these countries allocate significant areas for tobacco cultivation.

The repercussions of tobacco farming extend beyond health concerns, resulting in negative economic, environmental, and social impacts for tobacco-growing nations. In numerous cases, the foreign exchange earned from tobacco exports is used to import essential food supplies. Furthermore, the cultivation of tobacco leads to adverse health effects among farmers and agricultural workers, as well as irreversible environmental degradation, including the depletion of water sources, deforestation, and the loss of various plant and animal species.

Malawakang PNP revamp, iniutos ni Acorda

Mahigit dalawang linggo matapos siyang umupo bilang ika-29 na pinuno ng Philippine National Police (PNP), nag-utos si PNP chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. ng paglipat ng ilang matataas na opisyal ng pulisya, kabilang ang tatlong pinakamataas na posisyon sa command group ng puwersa.

Itinalaga ni Acorda si Lt. Gen. Michael John Dubria, ang hepe ng direktoryal staff, bilang bagong deputy chief for operations, ang pangatlong pinakamataas na opisyal ng PNP, na pumalit kay Maj. Gen. Jonnel Estomo na itinalaga bilang direktor ng Directorate for Plans.

Si Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Peralta naman ay bumaba sa kanyang posisyon bilang hepe ng Directorate for Operations (DO) upang magsilbi bilang hepe ng direktoryal staff, ang ika-apat na pinakamataas na posisyon sa PNP, na pumalit kay Dubria.

Si Estomo naman ay itinalaga bilang pinuno ng Directorate for Plans, kapalit ni Maj. Gen. Bernard Banac, na magiging hepe ng Directorate for Information and Communications Technology Management (DICTM) bilang kapalit ni Maj. Gen. Valeriano De Leon, na nagretiro noong Mayo 7.

Si Brig. Gen. Leo Francisco, ang regional director ng Police Regional Office sa Western Visayas (PRO-6), ay ililipat sa DO bilang kapalit ni Peralta.

Ang pagbabago sa mga posisyon ay magsisimula sa darating na Lunes.

Lima ang Pangunahing Layunin

Sa kanyang unang flag ceremony bilang pinuno ng PNP sa Camp Crame noong Lunes, ibinahagi ni Acorda ang limang pangunahing layunin na magiging gabay ng pulisya upang maging mas epektibo at maaasahan na puwersa.

Sinabi ni Acorda na ang limang pangunahing layunin ng kanyang termino ay kinabibilangan ng agresibong at matapat na pagpapatupad ng batas, pagbibigay-pansin sa morale at kapakanan ng mga pulis, pagpapalakas ng integridad, pag-unlad ng teknolohiya sa impormasyon at komunikasyon, at pagpapalakas ng pakikilahok ng komunidad (implementation of aggressive and honest law enforcement operations, giving premium to the morale and welfare of police personnel, integrity enhancement, information and communication technology development and boosting of community engagement).

Binanggit ni Acorda na bahagi ng pagpapatupad ng agresibong at matapat na pagpapatupad ng batas ay ang walang-humpay na kampanya laban sa ilegal na droga at mga iligal na baril, pati na rin ang pagsasagawa ng mas malakas na checkpoint, operasyon laban sa mga wanted na tao, criminal gang, mga nasa organisadong krimen, at iba pang grupong nagdudulot ng banta sa kapayapaan at kaayusan.

“I am deeply honored and privileged to be standing here today as your new Chief of the Philippine National Police. As we gather for this Monday Flag Raising Ceremony, I am reminded of the significance of this moment and the enormous responsibility that comes with leading one of the country’s most revered institutions,”ayon kay Acorda.

Kasalukuyang nasa gitna ng kontrobersiya ang PNP matapos madawit ang ilang pulis, kasama na ang mga opisyal na mataas ang ranggo, na diumano ay sangkot sa ilegal na kalakalan ng droga.

Nauna dito,  sinabi ni Pangulong Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. na tinanggap niya ang courtesy resignation ng dalawang senior na opisyal ng pulisya dahil sa pagdududa na may koneksyon sila sa iligal na aktibidad.

Kabilang ang dalawang opisyal sa mahigit na 900 na full-pledged na mga koronel at heneral na nagsumite ng kanilang courtesy resignation bilang tugon sa panawagan ni Abalos upang linisin ang hanay ng pulisya.

“As we progress into the upcoming week, let us always keep in mind the noble purpose of our profession. Let us work together towards a common goal of providing ‘Serbisyong Nagkakaisa’ — a united and excellent service to our people,” sabi ni Acorda.