PRESUMPTION OF TRUTH BREEDS POLICE BRUTALITIES Why many police agents are oppressive, abusive, corrupt and dishonest? This blog has been triggered by an article in Inquirer published on 7 December 2014, entitled “Impunity despite PH’s landmark Anti-Torture Act.” This commentator blames the Rule of Presumption of Regularity under the Rules of Evidence to all the words of the policemen, agents and other law enforcement operatives. This means that almost every word uttered by police operatives is presumed true before the court, the prosecutor’s offices, the Ombudsman, internal discipline offices, and other administrative adjudication agencies. So that no matter how much fight would be put up by victims of human rights abuses committed by officers of the law, the victims always end up defeated in the contest of who tells the truth: The Rule of Presumption of Regularity always presumes that all policemen, agents and other law enforcement operatives are presumed to be telling the truth. So that even if victims of human rights could still be lucky to be alive, their first problem is how to overcome the weight of evidence given outright to the words uttered by torturers because the Rules of Presumption of Regularity says the cops’ words are presumed true. Because of this, all operatives are bold in committing rights violations, including planting of evidence for the purpose of extortion. Violators are confident they cannot be caught lying. Considering the magnitude of violations of human rights, there is a pressing need for the Rules of Evidence to be changed with respect to the presumption of regularity given to every word of police and other law enforcers. READ MORE ON THIS: totocausing.blogspot/p/presumption-of-truth-breeds-police.html?spref=bl
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:26:19 +0000
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