Panfilo Lacson was the Director General of the Philippine National Police from 1999 to 2001, and was a candidate in the 2004 and 2022 Philippine presidential elections.
95 Facts About Panfilo Lacson
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Panfilo Lacson ran for the presidency in 2004, but lost though he continued to serve as senator until 2007.
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Panfilo Lacson led the management and rehabilitation efforts of the central provinces in the Philippines affected by Typhoon Yolanda.
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Panfilo Lacson won and ranked fourth in the said elections.
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Panfilo Morena Lacson was born in Imus, Cavite on June 1,1948.
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Panfilo Lacson's late mother, Maxima, a market vendor, was a disciplinarian who instilled distinctions between right and wrong with her children.
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Panfilo Lacson finished grade school at the Bayan Luma Elementary School in 1960 and high school at the Imus Institute in 1964.
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Panfilo Lacson passed but the classmate who invited him did not.
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American historian Alfred W McCoy claimed in his 1999 book Closer Than Brothers that Lacson was among those in MISG who tortured prisoners during martial law in the 1970s, which Lacson has vehemently denied.
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In 1981, Panfilo Lacson was a Lieutenant Colonel with the PC-Metrocom, when he led a team that rescued now-tycoon Robina Gokongwei-Pe, daughter of businessman John Gokongwei Jr.
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Panfilo Lacson explained he does not want his men to have the wrong mentality of not helping "gusgusin" complainants who cannot afford to give them rewards.
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Panfilo Lacson said that after Robina's rescue, the elder Gokongwei offered P400,000 as reward money, which he declined.
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Panfilo Lacson was said to have told the victim's family that a mere "thank you" was more than enough for him.
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In 1992, Panfilo Lacson was recruited to the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission chaired by then Vice President Joseph Estrada.
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Panfilo Lacson headed the PACC's Task Force Habagat, which would go on to solve several kidnap-for-ransom cases.
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Panfilo Lacson maintained an all-out effort against jueteng, even if in the process he crossed paths with eventual President Joseph Estrada.
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Under the Estrada administration, Panfilo Lacson headed the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force, bringing to zero the number of kidnap-for-ransom cases.
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Panfilo Lacson rationalized the distribution of financial and logistical resources by downloading 85 percent to the police frontline units, retaining only 15 percent in the police headquarters.
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Panfilo Lacson imposed a strict physical fitness test on all PNP members, invoking a 34-inch maximum waistline for police officers.
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Panfilo Lacson refused to accept bribe money from illegal gambling operators and contractors and suppliers transacting business with the PNP, declining offers of monetary rewards from kidnap-for-ransom victims after rescuing them from their captors.
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Panfilo Lacson took an optional retirement on February 16,2001, to run for Senator.
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Mancao was allegedly present when Panfilo Lacson gave the hit order to then Police Senior Superintendent Michael Ray Aquino sometime in October 2000.
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Panfilo Lacson denied these allegations, stating that the Office of the President had pressured Mancao to sign the affidavit.
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On January 5,2010, Panfilo Lacson left the Philippines on a Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong, shortly before charges against him were filed in court.
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Panfilo Lacson became a fugitive for the next fifteen months.
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Panfilo Lacson had been spotted in Hong Kong and Rome but was never apprehended.
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Panfilo Lacson returned to the country on March 26,2011, a month after the Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals' ruling on the case.
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Panfilo Lacson claimed that he was forced by the Arroyo administration to implicate their names.
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Panfilo Lacson was appointed by then President Joseph Estrada to head the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force and to serve as Philippine National Police Chief.
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Panfilo Lacson ran for senator in the 2001 elections under the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, which was affiliated with Estrada's Puwersa ng Masa coalition.
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Panfilo Lacson won a seat in the Senate, finishing in tenth place.
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In late 2006, Panfilo Lacson said he might run as mayor of the city of Manila in the 2007 midterm elections.
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Panfilo Lacson won reelection in the 2007 senatorial elections senatorial elections, ranking third.
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On March 11,2003, Panfilo Lacson delivered a speech entitled Living Without Pork, exposing the evils and temptations presented by the pork barrel system, and called for its total abolition.
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Panfilo Lacson filed bills that aimed to improve public service, enhance reproductive health, promote investments, bolster the country's defense capabilities,.
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Panfilo Lacson was one of the main authors of two legislative measures of the Aquino administration, one of which was the Reproductive Health Act.
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Panfilo Lacson authored Senate Bill No 2783, which strengthened further the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001.
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Panfilo Lacson's work is part of Republic Act No 10167, which was approved and signed into law on June 18,2012.
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Panfilo Lacson authored an amendment to the Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Act, which aims to provide more funds to the military.
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Panfilo Lacson filed Senate Bill No 2993, An Act Providing for a comprehensive law on firearms, light weapons and ammunitions, which was signed into law as Republic Act 10591.
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Panfilo Lacson authored the law converting Imus, Cavite from a municipality into a city.
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Panfilo Lacson filed Senate Bill No 2945, which reapportioned the province of Cotabato into three legislative districts.
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Panfilo Lacson filed resolutions that led to many officials being held accountable, whether incumbent or former.
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Panfilo Lacson filed resolutions commending members of the police and military for safeguarding Filipinos, including:.
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Panfilo Lacson ran for President in the 2004 general election against the incumbent president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
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Panfilo Lacson's candidacy stirred disagreements with its party president, Senator Edgardo Angara.
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Panfilo Lacson resigned from the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino upon hearing the news.
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In December 2014, Panfilo Lacson tendered his irrevocable resignation as PARR which took effect in February 2015.
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Panfilo Lacson recommended the transition of his office's accomplishments and best practices to a permanent government agency.
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Panfilo Lacson viewed the scheduled sunset review of Republic Act 10121, otherwise known as "Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010", as an opportune time to propose possible remedial measures that will help improve the effectiveness of the law, especially on the aspect of disaster rehabilitation and recovery.
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Panfilo Lacson pointed out that while his mandate as PARR was to develop a rehabilitation plan, he had no authority to implement or manage funds.
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Panfilo Lacson originally planned to run for president in the 2016 election.
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Panfilo Lacson was initially listed in Senator Grace Poe's senatorial lineup, but he was eventually replaced by Edu Manzano.
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Panfilo Lacson was listed in Rodrigo Duterte's senatorial slate.
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Panfilo Lacson, who endorsed former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas' presidential campaign, garnered around 17 million votes in the 2016 elections, earning his way to a Senate seat by ranking fourth in terms of total votes.
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Panfilo Lacson filed Senate Bill 42, penalizing a wide range of crimes ranging from drug-related offenses to treason, terrorism, and human trafficking.
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On October 19,2016, Panfilo Lacson sponsored Senate Bill 1210, the proposed Expanded Anti-Wiretapping Act of 2016.
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Panfilo Lacson filed bills to ensure professionalism among law enforcers, including:.
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Panfilo Lacson filed bills seeking to streamline or update the operations of government agencies, including:.
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Panfilo Lacson re-filed in the 18th Congress his bills on anti-terrorism and anti-wiretapping.
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Panfilo Lacson is the first to declare his bid for the presidency.
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In late July 2021, Panfilo Lacson became chairman of Partido Reporma, a political party founded by former Philippine defense secretary Renato de Villa.
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On February 8,2022, during his proclamation rally in his hometown of Imus, Cavite, Panfilo Lacson stressed his platform will be based on uplifting the lives of Filipinos by fixing the ills of government and getting rid of thieves, especially those in the government.
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Panfilo Lacson said promoting transparency and stopping corruption will be his priority should he be elected.
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Panfilo Lacson said he would do this by enforcing discipline in the bureaucracy.
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Panfilo Lacson said he will sign a waiver of his rights to the Bank Secrecy Law and encourage all government officials and employees to do the same.
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Panfilo Lacson vowed to undertake a massive internal cleansing of the bureaucracy, going first after those with pending cases involving corruption and negligence.
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Panfilo Lacson stressed as well a "Filipino first" policy, granting incentives to local industries for prioritizing local production and labor.
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Panfilo Lacson said it is unacceptable that the Philippines imports galunggong and vegetables that Filipino farmers are producing.
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House members demanded that he named his sources, but Panfilo Lacson refused, saying that he gets more information because he protects his sources.
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Panfilo Lacson said that such complaints will not distract him from scrutinizing the 2020 budget bill.
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Panfilo Lacson had been pushing for the restoration of the death penalty, filing a bill seeking to "re-impose the death penalty on certain heinous crimes" in 2019.
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On September 28, Panfilo Lacson filed charges against Faeldon and several others before the Office of the Ombudsman over rice smuggling in March 2017.
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Panfilo Lacson bared WellMed, a company suspended for making fake benefit claims, was still receiving payments from PhilHealth.
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Also, Panfilo Lacson said the family of Health Secretary and ex-officio PhilHealth chairman Francisco Duque III had entered into a lease agreement with PhilHealth's Region 1 office where the agency rented the building owned by the Duque family's EMDC in Dagupan City.
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Panfilo Lacson said a General Information Sheet of EMDC showed Secretary Duque was among the stockholders of the company, thus indicating a conflict of interest.
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Panfilo Lacson was found in 2015 by the Food and Drug Administration of manufacturing for other companies, and was slapped a cease-and-desist order in June 2015.
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Panfilo Lacson pushed for bigger state investments in research and development, which he noted accounts for only 0.4 percent of the national budget from 2016 to 2020.
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Panfilo Lacson reiterated the importance of research and development in March 2020, amid government preparations to deal with the COVID-19 threat.
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Panfilo Lacson vowed a "historic increase" of budget infusion for research and development efforts should he be elected President.
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Panfilo Lacson is one of the authors and the sponsor in the Senate of what is Republic Act 11479, the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte on July 3,2020.
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Shortly after assuming his Senate post in 2016, Panfilo Lacson filed a bill providing free irrigation for farmers.
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Panfilo Lacson chaired a Senate committee investigation into the fatal hazing of law student Horacio "Atio" Castillo III in September 2017.
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Panfilo Lacson filed several anti-crime bills that were passed into law, including:.
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Panfilo Lacson primarily authored Republic Act 9194, the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
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Panfilo Lacson sponsored the bill seeking to establish a National ID system in the Philippines.
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Panfilo Lacson sponsored in the Senate what is the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
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Panfilo Lacson said he is ready to closely monitor and call out potential abuses in the implementation of the law, adding he will not allow anyone to pervert the legislative intent of the measure that he had painstakingly sponsored on the Senate floor.
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Panfilo Lacson noted the bill had gone through the gauntlet in the legislative branch, with its provisions earning the nod of constitutionalists and legal heavyweights in both houses of Congress.
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Panfilo Lacson filed Senate Bill 255 in July 2019, seeking to ease the requirements for municipalities to become cities.
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Panfilo Lacson co-authored and sponsored Senate Bill 2376, which President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law as Republic Act 11709.
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Panfilo Lacson was the principal author and sponsor of Senate Bill 2869 in the 15th Congress, which sought to provide fixed terms for the AFP's chief of staff and major service commanders.
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The leaders of our AFP will have the opportunity to implement their legacy programs instead of staying in office too briefly," said Panfilo Lacson, adding that "he revolving-door policy has always been a disservice to the mandates of the military leadership entrusted with the security and defense of the country.
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Panfilo Lacson was one of the co-authors of the following laws:.
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Panfilo Lacson said this new chapter in his life involves seeking to boost Philippine agriculture by planting the protein-rich sorghum while engaging in small-scale feed mills, hatcheries and fish cage farming in Mindanao and Luzon.