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Exclusive | Police from Philippines, China plan collaboration to foil casino-related kidnappings in Manila
- A contingent of police will be sent to Beijing to take an anti-kidnapping course and liaise with Chinese officers
- Another proposal would see Chinese police sending a team to Manila, where cases of Chinese nationals abducting compatriots have seen 120 people arrested so far
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Police from the Philippines and China are planning to work together to solve crimes committed by Chinese nationals against their compatriots, according to the head of the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG).
This would include sending Philippine officers to Beijing for a two-week stint in September to take an anti-kidnapping course and establish a liaison with various Chinese police officials, PNP-AKG director Colonel Jonnel Estomo told the South China Morning Post.
The course would include surveillance and negotiation techniques, he said.
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Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Elmer Cereno, in a separate interview, said the PNP-AKG’s “problem is we don’t have any contacts [with our counterparts] in China”, adding that this hampered investigations.
The PNP-AKG handled 53 kidnapping cases between 2017 and August 2019, which led to the arrest of 120 Chinese nationals and the rescue of 57 Chinese victims, he said.
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