President Rodrigo Duterte signed Republic Act 10973, a law restoring the power of select officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to issue subpoenas on cases under investigation, ratified the Republic Act 6975, covers authority limited to (et.al.) Office of the Ombudsman, the Department of Justice, the National Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency .
Under RA 10973 giving immediate authority to the PNP chief, the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group director, and the CIDG deputy director for administration to summon individuals and documents to aid the PNP’s investigative work. Failure to comply will serve as indirect contempt before the Regional Trial Court.
Senator Panfilo Lacson authored then a bill said that its ironic when police operations will rely on the bureaucratic approval when action needed immediate resolution.
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