RESPONSE to TALIBA’s Editorial titled: Parak na naman! on July 15, 2008.

Sadyang nakakalungkot na muli na namang nabahiran ng putik ang imahe ng Pambansang Kapulisan. Sa Kabila ng mga Programa upang mapabuti ang image nito na bahagi ng PNP Integrated Transformation Program, patuloy itong hinahatak pababa ng ilang tiwaling Pulis na ang hangad ay mabigyang katuparan ang kanilang pansariling interes.

The Philippine National Police does not deny that the recent involvement of Police Chief Inspector EXEQUIEL CAUTIVER and PO1 Dondon Abogado in the kidnapping and murder of retired pilot Demosthenes Cañete and his driver Allan Garay, was a big blow in the initiative of Police Director General AVELINO I RAZON, JR, Chief PNP, in cleansing the PNP ranks with bad eggs, misfits and scalawags personnel.

But it must be remembered that the PNP organization is not condoning the like practices of its personnel. Even though PCI CAUTIVER is the Training Director of PNP Special Action Force Training School based in Sta Rosa, Laguna, the Director of PNP SAF, PCSUPT LEOCADIO SANTIAGO participated in the conduct of operations against them which resulted in the arrest and neutralization of CAUTIVER’s group.

Ang kani-kanilang mga immediate superiors ang umaksiyon kaagad upang ang mga nasabing kasapi ng PNP ay maimbestigahan o maparusahan ng naaayon sa Batas at dagliang maipakulong habang ang kanilang mga kaso ay nililitis pa sa Hukuman.

To prove that the PNP is continuing its relentless effort to cleanse its ranks, a total of 245 PNP personnel were either dismissed, suspended, dropped from rolls, forced to resign or demoted for their involvement in illegal activities from January 01, 2007 to June 30, 2008.

Malaki pa rin ang tiwala ng pamunuan ng PNP na hindi makakaimpluwensya o tutularan ng nakararaming bilang ng mga pulis ang iilan na tiwaling miyembro. Seryosong indoktrinasyon upang maging Mamang Pulis na Makatao, Maka-Diyos, Malalapitan, Maaasahan, at Kaaya-ayang tingnan ang iipinapaloob sa mga pagsasanay, lalo na sa mga bago pa lamang pumapasok sa serbisyo.

Ang mga Values Formation and Moral Recovery Programs tulad ng Purpose-Driven Life Seminar ay mahigpit na ipinapatupad sa hanay ng PNP mula sa Heneral hanggang sa PO1, kasama ang mga Non-Uniformed Personnel. Lahat nang paraan ay ginagawa na ng Pamunuan para lamang mawala o di kaya ay mabawasan ang mga tiwaling kasapi ng PNP.

The PNP is assuring the general public that it will enforce the full force of the law to any erring personnel. The Chief, PNP and Mamang Pulis himself is encouraging the community and the civil society to participate in promoting the rule of law by reporting police abuses or complaints thru PNP Txt 2920 or to I-report mo kay Mamang Pulis – 09178475757.