MANY INJUSTICES UNCHECKED

The good news is that the Philippine President personally presented the proposed Bangsa Moro
Law to Congress. It is a big part of the peace and order concern in the country. Another, but the bad
news, that many of our police officers are entangled with accusations of serious crimes like that of the
EDSA incident. With so many including Senators Grace Poe and Miriam Santiago talking about peace
and order being a prime problem in the country, Secretary Mar Roxas should really take action on all
policemen involved in various crimes in the whole country. Check cases taking years or even decades
before the NAPOLCOM, or simple take action on their own. Re-assignment could simply do it as punitive
act but was missing from NAPOLCOM which hit Secretary Roxas as chief. Policemen should deposit their
firearms in their headquarters when off-duty and not in uniform so that rogue policemen could not use
their firearms to commit various crimes. It is even better to review PNP law and just have contractual
security agencies as replacements, in provinces or cities, where good policemen maybe absorbed,
separation pay and early retirement provided.
Again, Secretary Roxas talks of random blotter examination. But the problem is many
policemen refuse to blotter nor take action particularly when policemen are involved to even show
gullible heads that their poorpoormance is splendid. The President even publicly praises them, albeit
gravely erroneous that emboldens police criminality. In effect, it destroys the PNP institution in which
he is chief. The system dissuades the public in mustering courage to report police scalawags even us it
puts them in serious disadvantage. A leading newspaper, Philippine Star had run an article of police
quota system from illegal activities. Thus, Filipinos no longer report crimes because in many instances
police desk become tippers of their comrades and batch mates in the police training. These takes
people to think there may be syndicated sharing thus, the cuddling. Reportedly, a rogue policemen
often involved in misdeeds is Rogel del Rio of Tanauan City PNP with senile action from the NAPOLCOM
aka NAPALPAK.
There are also policemen who could hardly write legibly. Many do not even know what to put
on blotters. These should now become part of the recruitment screenings nation-wide. Local
government units are mandated to enforce all laws and ordinances. So many hardly knows, however
how to blotter and many times refuse to give certified copies or just jot down complaints in loose
sheets. Their alleged trainings are actually out of town junkets not even touching on as basic service as
proper recording of incidents. Secretary Roxas, wake up and show some competence or forget the
presidency. Meanwhile, Senator Bongbong Marcos, DILG Committee head in the Senate and other
presidentiables are in deafening silence. Meantime, the National Press Club could perhaps help correct
our system as the 4
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state.
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At the Land Registration Office branch in Tanauan City, Batangas, there are many fake and
defective documents being registered fast by notorious individuals with cases of falsification or estafa
instead of calling the parties first and investigate for denial or warning. Also, call the attention of the
NBI and the PNP-CIDG to help uncover misdeeds with teeth. It results in scams where poor victims
having to see a lawyer, pay prohibitive lawyer fees, dockets, and bonds instead of the reverse. Thus,
there is grave disadvantage and injustice. What if the party does not have money to pay for all these
excluding time necessary to spend? POA lawyers would refuse to help erroneously reasoning victim has
property although penniless. On the other hand, the indigent litigant rule seems out of reality. There is
where scams on property registration thieve well. Many are deprived of property that way. What else?
Could the Department of Justice and Chief Justice Maria Lourdes-Sereno find immediate remedy?