The Need for the Cleansing of PNP and DOJ
Posted on Thursday, 2 February 2017
The Need for the Cleansing of PNP and DOJ
By Apolinario Villalobos
Not only does the Philippine National
Police (PNP) need a “total cleansing”. The other one that also needs to be
purged of scalawags is the Department of Justice (DOJ). But the big question
is: can it be done by its secretary whose weak personality is the talk of the
town as he cannot even control the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in
view of the series of scandals that have rocked the agency? What about the PDEA
which also has a questionable image?
Lately, only re-assignments of post were
done to the NBI people who are alleged to be involved in anomalies. Why not
suspend and investigate them, with their wage suspended?...yet, the agency is
proud to announce to have done such hollow act!
The DOJ Secretary should be replaced by a
compatible, intelligent, strong-willed, less talker, and trustworthy guy….one
who has no record of “butterflying” from one political party to another which
manifests selfish motives….one who does not make appointments with disreputable
people….and, one who officially meets people in his office at day time only,
not in a restaurant or a hotel in the evening….meaning, one who is with
unquestionable honesty!
Surely, those who are involved in
anomalies, but do not belong to the PNP must be laughing their head off because
they have been spared from being humiliated in public such as what de la Rosa
did to the Olongapo policemen who were involved in the kidnap-extortion of
Koreans. But if these laughing eggheads belong to the DOJ, who will wash them
down with a barrage of cusses and make them do pushups…..Aguirre?...now, that
makes me laugh!
In my opinion, the respectable and strong
leadership characters do not fit the personality of Aguirre who has been viewed
as a weakling since day one of his assumption of office. He is a mismatch to
the strong-willed president with stony character. He is a burden to the
president because of the continued embarrassing anomalies committed by his
people who seem to be toying with his kind of leadership.
On the other hand, de la Rosa should also
mention in his interviews what happened to the long list of cases of killings
supposedly committed by the police, the most prominent of which was the murder
of a couple in Antipolo. During the Senate hearing, the children of the couple
revealed that the police also used their home as a drug den. The Filipinos want
to know if indeed, the police scalawags are slapped with appropriate penalties,
and not just suspensions and “vacation” in the PNP’s holding office in Crame,
or worst, just transferred to other posts. If the NAPOLCOM is dilly-dallying in
their job, de la Rosa should do what is appropriate.
For de la Rosa to regain his lost
reputation, he should stop being dramatic during interviews and just mention in
a professional manner what are asked of him…nothing else on anything that
oftentimes put him and the president in unbecoming situations. As for
Aguirre…he should resign to save himself from the embarrassing kick from the
president.
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