MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday said it will comply with a Supreme Court (SC) ruling that items seized during a lawful warrantless arrest are admissible as evidence in court, even if they were not initially visible to the arresting officers. Asked to respond to the ruling, in a press briefing in Camp Crame, PNP Chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. answered that the PNP already observed the procedures in handling evidence in training and in police commanders’ instructions. “We fully comply with that pronouncement… It’s been there in the law and in procedure,” Nartatez said in […]... Keep on reading: PNP complies with SC ruling on ‘plain view’ searches