Police to launch 'e-warrant' database
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) Saturday reported that it is receiving every year an average of 40,000 arrest warrants from various courts across the country.
To prevent the PNP from being made into a depository of documents for fugitives, PNP Chief, Director General Nicanor Bartolome, ordered an accounting of all the unserved arrest warrants and set a goal of getting at least 1,700 wanted persons every month.
Bartolome said the accounting of unserved arrest warrants would be essential in the launching of the “e-warrant” program of the PNP, which aimed at storing all arrest warrants in a database that will be accessible to all police units nationwide.
“The backlog of unserved court processes that have accumulated over the years is the subject of continuing law enforcement efforts by the PNP through computer-aided anti-crime methods designed to assist police units in monitoring and documenting court processes and records of wanted persons,” said Bartolome.




