What will happen if the local government executives have no control over the police force? Surely, they are nothing.
And it would be good because they can’t use the police for their personal interests. Right now, the police are always vulnerable to retaliation from the local government executives once their orders are not met.
Smitten by a share of the loots, some police scalawags are in cahoots with local government officials in the commission of certain crimes. I knew it is public knowledge that some of these local executives are engaged in illegal activities, using the police in clandestine operations. With the police personnel under the payroll, they just have to keep quiet and do whatever is ordered of them to do.
Try to make a survey and you will find out that almost all the local government executives have police bodyguards. And it is not that hard to get one for as long as you knew someone at the Police Security Unit in Camp Crame.
That’s why when Jun Lozada called up DENR secretary Lito Atienza to seek his help, the good secretary called up Camp Crame and presto, some police security personnel were sent to fetch Lozada at the airport. But Atienza may not have been aware that those sent by Camp Crame were suspected to be kidnappers rather than what was expected of them to do to secure Lozada.
What is worse here is that police security is not only limited to politicians and local and national government officials, but also businessmen, especially those who can afford to give out alowances for their personal bodyguards in civilian clothes. My immediate relative was offered to moonlight as a bodyguard to a businessman, but he refused it. His principles couldn’t take it. Besides, he’s already fed up with the tricks of the trade.
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