MANILA, Philippines — In a country where 90 percent of crimes have cyber content and where robbers now use phones or computers to rob banks instead of guns, only P475,000 allocation for intelligence fund is being pushed for an office under the Department of Justice tasked with fighting the “new enemies” or cybercriminals.
Despite the magnitude of its cybercrime tasks, the DOJ’s Office of Cybercrime has intelligence funds of only P475,000 under the national expenditure program, Sen. Joseph Victor Ejercito pointed out. “What we really need is a lot of help in improving the capability of the NBI and DOJ cybercrime offices and cybercrime prosecutors. Whatever the Senate can give us will be of big help,” the DOJ chief said.
Ejercito said the proposed P475,000 intelligence fund for the NBI Cybercrime Office is quite small, especially when compared to that of other civilian agencies not involved in fighting crimes or in security matters. During his presentation, DOJ Assistant Secretary Eric Vida said that the 2024 budget for the DOJ and its attached agencies, under the National Expenditure Program, amounts to P34.486 billion, which is higher than the P26.607 billion for the current year.
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