The United States Department of Justice (DOJ),also known as the Justice Department,is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States. It is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department is headed by the U.S. attorney general,who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. The current attorney general is Merrick Garland,who has served since March 2021.
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor from 1933 to 1940 and the U.S. Department of Justice from 1940 to 2003.
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of twelve company-branded franchised teams. Founded in 1975,it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the second-oldest continuously operating professional basketball league in the world after North America's NBA.
The governor-general of the Philippines was the title of the government executive during the colonial period of the Philippines,governed by Mexico City and Madrid (1565–1898) and the United States (1898–1946),and briefly by Great Britain (1762–1764) and Japan (1942–1945). They were also the representative of the executive of the ruling power.
The National Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Justice,responsible for handling and solving major high-profile cases that are in the interest of the nation.
Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers,people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020. Of these,female workers comprised a larger portion,making up 59.6 percent,or 1.06 million. However,this number declined to 405.62 thousand between 2019 and 2020.
The Department of Justice is under the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for upholding the rule of law in the Philippines. It is the government's principal law agency,serving as its legal counsel and prosecution arm. It has its headquarters at the DOJ Building in Padre Faura Street,Ermita,Manila.
The Department of Health is the executive department of the government of the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services by all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care,the regulation of all health services and products. It is the government's over-all technical authority on health. It has its headquarters at the San Lazaro Compound,along Rizal Avenue in Manila.
The Presidential Communications Group,or simply the Communications Group,is the collective name for the offices within the Office of the President of the Philippines and refers to the position of the Secretary of Presidential Communications Office formerly known as Office of the Press Secretary and the Secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). The office of the presidential spokesperson was previously under the Communications Group.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue(Filipino:Kawanihan ng Rentas Internas,or BIR) is a revenue service for the Philippine government,which is responsible for collecting more than half of the total revenues of the government. It is an agency of the Department of Finance and it is led by a Commissioner.
The Royal Thai Police (RTP) is the national police force of Thailand. The RTP employs between 210,700 and 230,000 officers,roughly 17 percent of all civil servants. The RTP is frequently recognized as the fourth armed force of Thailand since their tradition,concept,culture,skill,and training are relatively similar to the army and most of their officer cadets need to graduate from the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School before entering the Royal Thai Police Cadet Academy. Officers also undergo paramilitary training similar to the army but with an additional focus on law enforcement.
Wang Jun is a Chinese politician and former senior regional official. He was the Director of the State Administration of Work Safety between March and September 2008. He was appointed acting Governor of Shanxi province in north China in September 2008 after a botched government response to a mudslide in the province led to the resignation of then Governor Meng Xuenong. He served as Shanxi Governor until December 2012,when he was transferred to Inner Mongolia to serve as party chief there. He left active politics in August 2016.
The National Immigration Agency of the Ministry of the Interior is the statutory agency under the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of China (Taiwan) which is responsible for immigration,entry and exit security,border services and registration of foreigners. The agency is headed by the Director General. The current Director-General is Jeff Jia-Jun Yang.
The order of precedence in the Philippines is the protocol used in ranking government officials and other personages in the Philippines. Purely ceremonial in nature,it has no legal standing,and does not reflect the presidential line of succession nor the equal status of the three branches of government established in the 1987 Constitution.
The prevalence of illegal drug use in the Philippines is lower than the global average,according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). President Rodrigo Duterte has claimed that the country could become a "narco-state". Two of the most used and valuable illegal drugs in the country are methamphetamine hydrochloride and marijuana. In 2012,the United Nations said the Philippines had the highest rate of methamphetamine use in East Asia,and according to a U.S. State Department report,2.1 percent of Filipinos aged 16 to 64 use the drug based on 2008 figures by the Philippines Dangerous Drugs Board. As of 2016,the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime report that 1.1 percent of Filipinos aged 10 to 69 use the drug. In Metro Manila,most barangays are affected by illegal drugs.
The Bureau of Immigration,also known between 1972 and 1987 as the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation,is the immigration regulatory and control body of the Philippines. It was established by the Philippine Immigration Act in 1940,although a predecessor agency had existed as part of the Bureau of Customs since 1899.
The Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center (BI–Bicutan) is the principal immigration detention center administered by the Bureau of Immigration of the Philippines. Located inside Camp Bagong Diwa,in Lower Bicutan,Taguig,the facility is known internally as the Warden Facility and Protection Unit (WFPU). However,in press releases and public statements,the Bureau variously refers to the facility as being a "jail","warden facility" or "detention center". The function of the facility is to hold foreign detainees who are awaiting deportation,for example,because they have pending criminal cases,or because they are accused of having overstayed their visas.
Debold Menorias Sinas is a Filipino retired police general who served as Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) from November 2020 to May 2021. During his tenure,he oversaw the COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines. However,he was also accused of violating the COVID-19 lockdown rules himself.
Jolly Bugarin was a Filipino criminologist who served as Director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) from 1967 to 1986 and President of Interpol from 1980 to 1984.
