THE Philippine National Police (PNP) had started deploying its personnel to act as security escorts to some candidates in the upcoming synchronized national and local elections on May 9, 2016.

Supt. Rogelio Simon, spokesman of the PNP’s Police Security and Protection Group (PSPG), said that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) did not grant all of the requests it received from politicians for police security escorts.

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