The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) through the Philippine National Police has taken concrete steps to help solve the killings of Korean nationals, including a religious Korean leader two months ago, and other related security concerns. DILG Secretary Jesse M. Robredo said Thursday that he has submitted to President Benigno S. Aquino III a report coursed through him by PNP chief Director General Raul Bacalzo on the decisive actions taken by the DILG-PNP to address the security concerns raised by Korean Ambassador Hye Min Lee regarding the safety of Korean nationals in the country, particularly the killing…

Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse M. Robredo today said that Philippine National Police provincial and field offices all over the country will now have more funds to support their operational expenses as the PNP already has started to allocate funds to local police stations based on a “15:85” fund distribution scheme. Robredo said the 15:85 distribution ratio refers to the allocation of 15% of net distributable funds for the Police Regional Offices (PROs) and 85% to field units or to the Police Provincial Offices (PPOs) and police stations. Under this modified fund scheme, the Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses…

Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse M. Robredo today disclosed that more than 4,000 incumbent barangay captains or punong barangays in the country are serving their third consecutive term, thus disqualified to run for the same position in the coming October 25 synchronized barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections. Robredo said the Department will post on its website as well as the websites of DILG regional offices the list of incumbent punong barangays who are already on their third or even fourth consecutive term and are ineligible to run for the same post this elections.  The term of office of…

Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo  led contingents from the Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and DILG-National Capital Region (DILG-NCR) and Central Office in an anti-dengue clean-up activity in Barangay Culiat in Quezon City on Friday.  Health Secretary Enrique Ona and Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista joined Secretary Robredo. The activity was the second installment of dengue clean-up day, which was also carried out in local government units all over the country following a directive from Robredo urging local chief executives to implement clean-up activities in their respective localities. Records from the Department of Health show…

Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo said today (Monday) that the Department would introduce governance reforms in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which he described as the  “weakest linkâ€Ã‚  of the country.   Robredo said the support of local government officials and other concerned sectors in the region would be tapped in implementing meaningful reforms that would improve socio-economic conditions.   "ARMM seems like the weakest link in the Philippines, as there are problems in criminality and terrorism. It is yet to be developed. It is yet to reach its full potential," he said.   He said…

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has taken initial steps in making the country's most disaster-prone local government units resilient to the harsh effects of climate change by forging a memorandum of understanding with seven provinces, two cities and 19 municipalities for the implementation of a project on disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. Dubbed as "Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM)/ Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) to Local Government Systems and Processes," the project aims to improve knowledge and awareness on the nature and extent of risks faced by the pilot LGUs, and to capacitate them…

Secretary Jesse M. Robredo of the Department of the Interior and Local Government said today that his department is implementing a comprehesive three-point agenda to stamp out the illegal numbers game of "jueteng" in the country. Robredo cited the department's anti-jueteng strategies as better law enforcement, strengthening of the Small Town Lottery (STL) as alternative to jueteng, and adoption of measures to keep people away from the culture of gambling. He explained that the first strategy pertains to the intensified police operations against jueteng activities, the arrest of suspected gambling personnel, confiscation of bets and gambling paraphernalia, and filing of…

 Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo on Monday clarified that the memorandum dated August 9, 2010 was issued only to set the procedures to be followed in the issuance of a detail or extension of detail service of police personnel.   It came after three detail orders signed by DILG Undersecretary Rico Puno had been returned to the Office of the Secretary by the PNP’s Directorate for Personnel Records and Management because of lack of attached endorsements from the Secretary. Robredo said that the memorandum was a reiteration of Department Circular 2006-08 which states that:   "Extension or renewal…

In support for the priority programs of the Aquino administration on transparency, accountability, good governance, peace and order and public safety,   the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will present today its P86.9 billion proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2011 before the House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee.      Secretary Jesse M. Robredo will lead officials of the DILG including its attached agencies, the National Police Commission (Napolcom), Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) and the Local Government Academy (LGA), in defending the…

To bring the Department closer to the people, Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse M. Robredo today leads officials of the Department in launching its Public Assistance  Center (PAC). The center, located at the ground floor of the DILG central office in Quezon City, will receive and quickly respond to and act on requests for assistance as well as  complaints that are  brought to the attention of the Department by the public. "We would like the ordinary Filipinos to feel the Department's presence and ensure them that we are a listening and working DILG," he said. Robredo said a similar…