The Philippine National Police was not always the scandal-rocked and much maligned institution as projected in news headlines and commentaries these days.
The already blemished image is gets darker with top PNP officials revealed to have treated intelligence funds as their personal travel and leisure kitty.
Even their wives are misrepresented as ranking officials attending assemblies of the International Police Organization (INTERPOL)!
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In the immediate post-American colonial period, the Philippine Constabulary (PC) stood as 4th branch of the Armed Forces – territorial home defense forces prosecuting the war against the peasant-based guerrillas Hukbong Bansa Laban sa Hapon ( HUKBALAHAP), the underground against the occupying Japanese Imperial Forces.
Refusing to lay down their arms after the war, the Huks with Luis Taruc providing charismatic leadership turned into a local insurgency espousing peasant land reform issues.
Suppressing these rebels gave rise to the national police organization.
When Taruc was finally captured and the Huks were dispersed (its remnants becoming the core of the communist New People’s Army), the PC was detached from the AFP, restructured as the PC-Integrated National Police (PC-INP), intended to be a fully civilian-character police organization.
That sound concept continues to hold promise, with the current Philippine National Police slowly drawing new ‘blood’ including its professional officer corps from its own Philippine National Police Academy.
But in practice is the PNP is still rigidly military in character with mistahs running the show characterized by the tendency to cover up misdeeds even if this means taking theblame for the incompetence of the higher ups while mid-level officers just wait for their turn at the generous benefits, rising robotically from the ranks.
This was much in evidence when retired PNP comptroller lamely explained to congressmen why he was offering himself as scapegoat in the scandal over the huge amount of Euros confiscated from him and his wife in Russia and how he drew the money from police intelligence funds.
“That is my training Sir,” Dela Paz confessed.
Equally revealing s the admission of embattled PNP chief Jesus Versoza that he did not suspend the ranking officials found involved in the scandal and simply formed “technical working groups” to study fiscal reforms, among others.
To top it all, Versoza, through his boys, has dragged the name of his predecessor, Avelino Razon, into the blame-game as the trip to St. Petersburg was approved before Razon bowed out of office. This even as that Versoza’s own director for plans handpicked Dela Paz and company for their Russian junket.
The lies the PNP brass are trying to stitch together in their damage control-cum-cover up of the scandal continue: including their supposed intent to buy anti-crime intelligence gear as reason for the huge cash advance drawn by Dela Paz and planned side trips, and the assertion that they all upgraded their airline bookings to business class at their own expense.
Laughably damning for Dela Paz is his claim that he was carrying huge sums of Euros to buy watches in Vienna for a businessman-friend with hundreds of millions of pesos worth of supply contracts with the PNP.
Talk about the PNP going a long way from its humble roots.
A star-rank official acting as errand boy to buy watches?
The failure of leadership at the Philippine National Police is abundantly clear.
(Cross-posted @ At Miudfield
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One idealistic Mistah recently told me that these problems would have been prevented if the PMA itself were abolished and replaced not with another academy but by a National Defence University which is more civilian in orientation. This was done in Japan right after World War II.
The abolition of the PMA should have been done by Mrs Aquino right after the coups. Gringo should have consigned to rot in the brig (and not in the Senate) and this Trillanes fellow should have remained a nobody.
blackshama, kapatid…
Let’s try to move it forward.. the can and should be’s today given the rudderless movement of our PNP, now derisively being called, yet again, P{ulis-Patola if not PalpakNaPulis.
This is all about command responsibility…
Kung ano ang ginagawa ng Pinuno yun din ang gawain ng mga tagasunod…
Palpak ang pinuno..palpak ang tagasunod..
ang masklap eh lahat ng naging pinuno natin puro mga palpak!!!!!!!!!!
at yung mga nakapila na magiging pinuno ay puro palpakin din…
I hope the generation next to us will finally have something better, for I am dead certain..change for the better will not come to this lifetime of ours…
siguro kung magkaroon ng tsunami sa senado at sa congreso…di pa din pala..kasi si binay nasa cityhall ng makati… :)
“siguro kung magkaroon ng tsunami sa senado at sa congreso…di pa din pala..kasi si binay nasa cityhall ng makati…”
Ano ba yan?? Nakita ang city hall, di nakita ang malacanang.
WALA TALAGANG PAGASA PINOY. BULAG ANG ISANG MATA.
anong lakas meron ang malacañang kung wala na ang lahat ng kaalyado sa senado at congreso?
at tama ka na walang pagasa ang pinoy…dahil di lang bulang ang isang mata…bulag ang dalawang mata!!!!
“anong lakas meron ang malacañang kung wala na ang lahat ng kaalyado sa senado at congreso?”
Are suggesting the abolition of the Senate and the House and the retention of Malacanang. Long live the Queen. Pwee.
Did I make any suggestion? read the post again….and read it well..mr articulate :)
ibalik si erap? bwehehehehehe
ah ok..si binay pala buhekhekhek
ibalik si erap? bwehehehehehe
Did I say ibalik si Erap? read the post again…
BTW, who is that Mexican police big shot and who attended the same Interpol meeting? He was ordered arrested by a Mexican court for drug related offences. He was arrested and sent to jail.
Buti pa sa Mexico, walang mga hearings in aid of legislation. Kalaboso agad!
Trillanes is a reflection of a segment of the Philippine elite. Ellen Tordesillas, Randy David and many more (bloggers and media) adore this Trillaness-dude with the messiah complex. ["anti-GMA", like plain-vanilla money, pollutes the morals and creates a lot of incestuous relationships.]