{"id":93244,"date":"2018-11-23T06:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=93244"},"modified":"2018-11-23T06:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T14:54:18","slug":"duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte Threatens to Send Army After Cops Gambling at Okada Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine\u2019s strongarm president Rodrigo Duterte has warned police personnel he will send in the army, if he has to, to stop them gambling at the Okada Manila Resort in Entertainment City in Para\u00f1aque.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93246\" data-style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-93246 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/duterte.jpg\" alt=\"Duterte\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-93246\"class=\"text-description\">President Rodrigo Duterte has banned police from gambling in casinos by a presidential decree. On Wednesday, he let it be known he was prepared to send the army in to sort our transgressors. (Image: Inquirer\/AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the Philippine News Agency, the president made the surprising statement at the opening of the Philippines&#8217; first container-barge port in the city of Tanza on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Okada. I\u2019d like to announce, all you cops, stay away from there,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat are the policemen doing there? What\u2019s your business there\u2026? If you violate my order, I will dismiss you from the service.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\"><p>\u201c\u2026That\u2019s an order. Because you are there to commit a crime. You are not assigned there, or I will assign the army to patrol there,\u201d he continued. \u201cChoose: either the military will do the patrolling there or you go out of that place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOne more policeman there and incident and I will call the (Army) Rangers to come down and patrol the whole of Dewey Boulevard,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Zero Tolerance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In April, Police Superintendent Adrian Antonio was arrested for gambling at an unnamed casino in Entertainment City. All government officials, including police officers, are banned from playing in casinos by presidential decree.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>Duterte singled out the Okada Manila because he claimed it was \u201ccrawling with usurers and kidnappers.\u201d It was a place where \u201clow-life members of the society\u201d stay, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The populist president has previously expressed his dislike of gambling, but it\u2019s his dislike of \u201clow life members of society\u201d that has garnered global media attention.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Death Squads<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Duterte swept to power in June 2016 on a manifesto of zero tolerance to crime and drugs. Police death squads sanctioned by the president have murdered thousands of criminals and drug addicts since his election.<\/p>\n<p>On assuming power, he set about dismantling the Philippines online gambling industry \u2013- in particular, the operations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/pagcor-rejects-ownership-of-philweb-in-philippines\">Philweb<\/a>, which owned 299 online gambling caf\u00e9s across the country until Duterte pulled its license.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s billionaire owner Roberto Ongpin was described by Duterte as an example of the type of \u201coligarch embedded in government\u201d he wanted to eliminate.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-denies-existence-of-500-million-galaxy-casino-plan-for-boracay-island\">apparently giving his blessing<\/a> to casino projects proposed by Landing International and Galaxy Entertainment, he abruptly changed his mind, declaring there would be no more casinos on his watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine\u2019s strongarm president Rodrigo Duterte has warned police personnel he will send in the army, if he has to, to stop them gambling at the Okada Manila Resort in Entertainment City in Para\u00f1aque. According to the Philippine News Agency, the president made the surprising statement at the opening of the Philippines&#8217; first container-barge port [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":93246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Duterte Threatens to Send Army After Cops Gambling at Okada Manila<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has warned his police of there will be zero tolerance of casino gambling, particularly at the Okada Manila in Para\u00f1aque\u2019s Entertainment City.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Duterte Threatens to Send Army After Cops Gambling at Okada Manila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has warned his police of there will be zero tolerance of casino gambling, particularly at the Okada Manila in Para\u00f1aque\u2019s Entertainment City.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-23T14:54:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/duterte-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casinoorgphilc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/\",\"name\":\"Duterte Threatens to Send Army After Cops Gambling at Okada Manila\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/duterte-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-23T14:54:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-23T14:54:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\"},\"description\":\"Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has warned his police of there will be zero tolerance of casino gambling, particularly at the Okada Manila in Para\u00f1aque\u2019s Entertainment City.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/duterte-threatens-to-send-army-after-cops-gambling-at-okada-manila\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/duterte-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/duterte-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"President Rodrigo Duterte has banned police from gambling in casinos by a presidential decree. 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