Table Talk By: Mike S. Apostol Quick response vital as crime deterrent Listening to a TV documentary made by GMA news on successful Filipino-Americans in, New Jersey USA, one of them a member of New Jersey Police Department (NJPD) said when interviewed that “quick response by the police to a crime scene when they are called by the victim” is very vital in crime-solving and a deterrent to crime. In a matter of seconds not over five minutes, the NJPD is at the crime scene, securing vital evidences and sometimes arresting the culprit who still happens to be at the crime scene. *** The NJPD or all Police Departments in the USA is beyond comparison to our Philippine National Police because of their modern and sophisticated communication technology and logistics. However, there is one thing in common with the NJPD that our PNP possesses, patrol cars and vehicles and gasoline requirements. Quick response needed vehicles and our Zamboanga City Police Departments have brand new police cars and vehicles supplied by the City Government and the PNP hierarchy. Lately the new City Mayor Maria Isabelle “Beng” Climaco-Salazar again gave the city police department nine brand new all weather, four wheel drive super utility vehicles (SUV). All barangays have sub-police stations although noticeably, crime zone areas and sanctuary of criminals in the city, like Campo Islam, Rio Hondo, Sta. Catalina and other dangerous areas, have no police outpost. We are surprised why these areas which needed police presence the most are not allocated with a police outpost. *** Quick response by the city police must be implemented and enforced to the hilt in every community within the city that needed police assistance. Complaints by the police of lack of manpower and personnel is already solved by the PNP hierarchy by a continuing police recruitment every year and almost a hundred of rookies graduate every year but how they are deployed is “none of our business” because the problem of manpower is still unsolved like the many crimes in the city. Many times too, relatives of shooting victims who cry for police assistance are taken for granted and when the police arrive at the crime scene, the shooting victim is already taken by “good Samaritans” to the nearest hospital and many of them already expired without any statement taken by the police vital to the solution of the case or evidences are not secured which could have given the police some “lead” in the case. Complaints of “no voluntary witness” or refusal by a witness to give statements are a police matter under the principle of “police work” where a witness to a crime is liable for contempt on a case against the People of the Philippines. In this case the “human rights” of the victim is protected more than the “human rights” of an involuntary witness who are sometimes an accomplice. What good is the “witness protection law” if the authorities cannot effectively implement it? *** Scoop: Policemen are commonly called “peace officers” perhaps we have to change it to “protection officers” so they will be there to protect those that needed their assistance. Peace is elusive in Zamboanga City. The Fire Department was changed into “fire protection office” the disabled group is now termed “differently able” group. “What is in a name” by Shakespeare is not always the same today. Agree or disagree. ***
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:47:24 +0000
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