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Vice President Sara Duterte attends the HOR Committee hearing on Good Governance and Public Accountability at the Batasan Pambansa in Quezon City on November 25, 2024, tackling the Php 612.5 million confidential fund expenses of the OVP and the DepEd under the helm of VP Duterte. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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Katrina Domingo

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/173259997834420241125-vpsd-hor-comm-hearing-MT-6.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Vice President Sara Duterte attends the HOR Committee hearing on Good Governance and Public Accountability at the Batasan Pambansa in Quezon City on November 25, 2024, tackling the Php 612.5 million confidential fund expenses of the OVP and the DepEd under the helm of VP Duterte. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Vice President Sara Duterte attends the HOR Committee hearing on Good Governance and Public Accountability at the Batasan Pambansa in Quezon City on November 25, 2024, tackling the Php 612.5 million confidential fund expenses of the OVP and the DepEd under the helm of VP Duterte. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News</span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday questioned why the Presidential Security Command (PSC) has been “eerily quiet” even when she has flagged several threats against her and her family.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/11/25/security-for-marcos-upcoming-activities-doubled-after-vp-sara-duterte-threat-1248">Security for Marcos&#x27; upcoming activities doubled after VP Sara Duterte &#x27;threat&#x27;</a><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/11/25/house-doubles-security-after-vp-sara-duterte-s-claim-of-tapping-hitman-for-romualdez-1059"></a></div><p>Duterte gave the remark a day after the PSC released a statement saying that it has heightened President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s security after the vice president claimed to have contracted someone to ensure the chief executive’s death should anything happen to her.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/11/25/marcos-on-vp-sara-duterte-s-kill-threat-yan-ay-aking-papalagan-1337">Marcos on VP Sara Duterte’s kill threat: ‘Yang ganyang kriminal na pagtatangka ay di dapat pinapalampas’</a></div><p>“Presuming the PSC is still a non-partisan professional organization, why is the command eerily quiet on the documented threats to me, my family and OVP personnel,” Duterte said in a statement.</p><p>“The silence is then proof that the inclusion of VPSPG in the PSC is clearly to undermine my security and nothing else,” she said, referring to the Vice President Security and Protection Group (VPSPG).</p><p>The VPSPG was a separate unit created by virtue of the Department of National Defense (DND) Order signed by Secretary Delfin Lorenzana dated June 20, 2022, Duterte said, noting that the move was meant to “distinguish the security of the Vice President and make it independent.”</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2024/11/25/vp-sara-duterte-says-remark-vs-marcos-maliciously-taken-out-of-logical-context-0922">VP Sara Duterte says remark vs Marcos &#x27;maliciously taken out of logical context&#x27;</a></div><p>Duterte said that after her resignation as Education Secretary, “the unit was unceremoniously assigned as a unit under the Presidential Security Command.”</p><p>“The security of the Vice President is now under the control of the PSC and as a consequence influenced by the decisions of the Office of the President,” Duterte said.</p><p>The second-in-command earlier said that there have been threats against her and her staff, but the National Bureau of Investigation denied that it has received intelligence information that Duterte and her family are in danger.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Htq0FJM4m4E?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/19An1Y8Tq_s?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Vice President Sara Duterte earlier said that there have been threats against her and her staff, but the NBI denied receiving such report.</p>

Vice President Sara Duterte earlier said that there have been threats against her and her staff, but the NBI denied receiving such report.

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Sara Duterte questions why PSC is 'eerily quiet' on threats vs vice president

Katrina Domingo,

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Published November 26, 2024 01:55 PM PHT

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Updated November 26, 2024 02:04 PM PHT

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