Lacson urges profiling, lifestyle check of dismissed cops, soldiers
Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 02:22:23 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Why not conduct profiling and surveillance on “dishonorably discharged” cops and soldiers and monitor their lifestyle?
Senator Panfilo Lacson, who was a former police chief, gave this unsolicited advice to the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Tuesday, following its reported profiling of members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT).
“The PNP should instead conduct profiling and surveillance on dishonorably discharged PNP and AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) personnel to keep track of their post discharge activities including their lifestyle,” Lacson in a text message when asked to comment on the issue.
“In that way, they may be able to solve a lot of crimes, even preempt them,” he added.
In a press conference on Monday, PNP chief Director General Oscar Albayalde denied ordering the surveillance of ACT members but said the PNP usually normally conducts monitoring of other organizations.
“Sabi nga natin, this is not profiling. It has been part of our intelligence monitoring lang naman (Like what we said, this is not profiling. It has just been part of our intelligence monitoring),” Albayalde said.
The PNP chief nevertheless sacked three police intelligence officers not because of profiling the ACT members but for their “scary” method of intelligence gathering. /je
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