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Police Miseries
Topic Started: May 17 2006, 04:33 PM (2,413 Views)
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Just like their counterparts at the AFP...

6 out of 10 cops don’t own homes

By Tonette Orejas, Cynthia D. Balana
Inquirer



CAMP OLIVAS, PAMPANGA—Some 73,000, or 62 percent, of policemen in the country do not have houses and lots of their own.

“They either rent or live with their relatives,” said Deputy Director General Oscar Calderon, PNP deputy chief for administration and chair of the PNP housing board.

Calderon said the PNP had tapped the Gawad Kalinga to help ease the housing problem among policemen and their families. It launched on Monday in Tarlac City the first of 48 areas for the “Pulis Kalinga” program.

Gawad Kalinga has helped build thousands of decent and affordable homes in poor urban and rural communities, mobilizing the labor and financial contributions of private individuals and corporations as well as public agencies.

Gawad Kalinga founder Tony Meloto joined Vice President Noli de Castro, concurrent chair of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, in Monday’s capsule-laying rites in a 62-hectare housing site in Barangay Macabulos.

At least 200 policemen assigned to various stations in Central Luzon will initially benefit from the project.

Calderon said Tarlac Rep. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III pledged P3.2 million to the project. The money would come from the lawmaker’s countryside development fund.

Local governments in Tarlac, Calderon said, committed to pay for the costs of renting construction equipment.

Each single detached, 20-square meter unit costs P60,000.

Calderon said Gawad Kalinga agreed to shoulder half of the amount. Policemen would pay the other half through a loan from the government-owned Pag-Ibig Fund.

De Castro urged policemen to cherish “with the same fervor” the housing privilege given them by the government and the private sector.

He said that while government was prioritizing the housing needs of squatters, such as those living along the right-of-way of the PNR North and South lines, the housing sector was also focusing on the same needs of the government sector, particularly the low-salaried employees.

Under the Institutional Housing Program of the government, priority is given to teachers, soldiers, policemen, and LGU employees.

“That is why you should treasure this benefit. If there are requirements needed, let’s work on it. If there are payments to be made, let’s pay them. That is all for your family,” said De Castro.

De Castro said the housing project for policemen was a concept of the PNP, through its personnel housing assistance program, with the help of the Gawad Kalinga.

The construction of 50 housing units will be sponsored by the Gawad Kalinga, in cooperation with the local government of Tarlac, the PNP and the National Housing Authority.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines Savings and Loans Association Inc. (AFPSLAI) will donate P6 million for the construction of 200 more housing units that would cost P60,000 per unit. Also, an additional P30,000 per beneficiary would be available from the Public Safety Mutual Benefit Financial Institution (PSMBFI).

De Castro also lauded non-government organizations (NGOs), such as the Gawad Kalinga, which have been giving assistance to the government in building shelters for squatters.

http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?ind...&story_id=76005

Well, come to think of it, they're not alone. Majority of fellow Filipinos, citizen taxpayers don't have houses of their own too. :dunno:
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:exactly: Why only the cops were given the emphasis of mentioning about housing problems when in general terms majority of the population do not have a house or property to their name.

On the cops' circle, most of them started from scratch escpecially the Eps and it will take them until retirement to own a dwelling if they are lucky enough.
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60 percent of police 'live below poverty line': general

06/01 8:24:46 PM

MANILA (AFP) - Up to 60 percent of police live below the poverty line and most live in squalid slums, the deputy director general of the national force said Thursday.

Avelino Razon, director-general of the Philippine National Police, said the poor pay and living conditions were to blame for high levels of crime.

"How do you expect these men to maintain the law when they live in squatter camps alongside criminals?" Razon asked a media forum on the killing of journalists.

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It's just like a smack on the ass that BIR and customs have a lucrative paypockets than the cops whose life is always on the line while on the pursuit of their job.

It lags behind other countries on the standard of pay.

Here in New Zealand when I was employed as a non-sworn police officer years back, my strarting wages was $36,000.00 per annum which is equavalent to P1,440,000.00 PHP pesos a year. This pay standard was almost 15 years ago. The amount that equates that pay at present is $55,000.00 per annum.

We can calculate the difference and we can easily visualize that the government is not highly concerned to lift up the living standard of the cops, and this paves the way for the cops to engage in nefarious activities during their tenure of office to augment the meager pay. Why neglect their welfare ?
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What more sa AFP?

They should address this ASAP.

And dont get private companies build the housing for them. They tend increase the value 10 folds.

Let the engineering brigade build for themselves.



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Why cops must befriend crooks
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc
The Philippine Star 06/05/2006

A cop walks home to the slum and comes across a gang of boisterous half-naked men boozing it up in the alley. Instantly he sees three violations of law – against public drinking, rowdiness and indecency – but he doesn’t accost them. When they call him to a heavy toast, he abides. These are the same crooks that peddle drugs or snatch cell phones thereabouts, yet the lawman must mutter a thank you. Topmost in his mind is the safety of his family when he’s away, which is often. The precinct where he’s assigned is undermanned, so they need to go on 48-hour straight duty.

That irony of police life was what Deputy Director General Avelino Razon meant when he disclosed that up to 60 percent of them live in slums. "How can you expect policemen to maintain the law when they live in squatter camps alongside criminals?" lamented the second highest officer of the Philippine National Police.

Not only do they lack decent homes, but also basic equipment. The PNP is short of 21,204 firearms, 14,700 patrol cars, 48 speedboats, and 32 helicopters. In many precincts they must bring their own handcuffs, bullets and paper to type reports on, and gas up motorcycles with their own cash. No less than 1,200 stations need to be built, and 45,000 men recruited.

Policemen’s budgets hardly ever grow. Yet they are expected to respond in a snap to a break-in, shoot it out with bank robbers, sniff the trail of con men, and of course heighten their street visibility to avert crime.

Sadly this has been going on for decades. I have interviewed half a dozen police generals since the early ’80s, and their stories have remained basically the same. Hermilo Ahorro, Constabulary deputy chief; Alfredo Lim, Manila police chief, now senator; Ramon Montaño, first PNP boss; Lucas Managuelod, head of all detectives; Reynaldo Velasco, chief for Metro Manila; Ernesto Belen, head of the crime lab. All bewailed a scarcity of manpower, firearms and facilities. During their watch, they had pleaded for funds for crime scene replication and additional DNA testing machines, hospitals and cemeteries exclusively for cops, or mere increases in stipends for uniforms. They considered themselves lucky if Congress gave them a fifth of their budget requests. In the end they all shrugged and said a good officer must make do with the little that he has.

What the police have is never enough. The PNP’s 120,000 personnel are stretched over 7,100 islands. Guarding 84 million citizens, their ratio is only one cop for every 700 population – too few for the ideal 1:500. And so the police must depend on about 113,000 barangay watchmen and private security guards as "force multipliers", at least for foot patrols and visibility in private buildings. But the latter are no match for determined criminals, as seen in the recent spate of bank robberies, and killings of journalists and leftist militants. The burden of holding action is still on the PNP.

The police, like all other state employees – teachers, doctors, soldiers – can only wait for better times. If the economy booms and jobs abound, tax payments hopefully will rise to bankroll improvements in police pay and strength. Till then, the police must plod on.

Luckily they’ve done well enough despite the odds. An Oct. 2005 poll bared that 82 percent of crime victims did not bother to report to the police. That was only half the story, though. In truth, 85 percent of respondents said they or their immediate kin had not fallen prey to crime in six months. Only 15 percent said they had been victims, and it was 82 percent of them who just grinned and bore it.

PNP chief Arturo Lomibao reported in January that crime volume grew only 0.6 percent in 2005. Of the total 77,253 incidents, 42,676 or 55 percent were index crimes. Homicide dropped 7 percent. But other offenses rose: murder by 2.1 percent, assault by 9.6, robbery by 2.7, theft by 5.7, and rape by 2.4. Still, of all crimes against persons or property, 84 percent were solved.

Of the total non-index crimes, ranging from heinous kidnapping to forgivable cursing, 97 percent were solved. The total crime solution rate was 90 percent – a good enough grade given the shortages the PNP faces.

The illegal numbers game of jueteng was kept at bay with a strike-one rule; that is, the local police chief is sacked once central authorities note the slightest sign of resurgence.

Still public distrust in crime solution persisted due to high-profile cases. Police conducted 11,962 drug raids and busts, nabbed 14,944 pushers, confiscated P2 billion worth of narcotics, and shut down 11 shabu factories. But they had a dismal record in kidnapping: only 13 of 41 incidents solved, a mere 32 percent despite the capture of 77 gangsters.

Arrested in shootouts were 136 carjackers. But only 454 of 945 stolen vehicles, or 48 percent, were recovered. Of 24 bank heists, only five were solved with the indictment of 25 robbers. The police just have to try harder.

And so, when they walk home to the slum, policemen must think not only of the safety of their families from neighboring thugs. Duty must also be topmost in their mind. But that’s easier said than done.
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A policeman came home and, upon seeing his wife in bed with the gut next door, shot the man dead. The horrified wife shouted, "If you don’t change your ways, you’ll wipe out the whole neighborhood."

Sick, but that joke came from a cop.
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E-mail: jariusbondoc@workmail.com

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In the slum areas all sorts of people are living there, the good, the not so good, and the not very good inhabitants.

If one has to choose a vocation who hails from this areas to become a peace officer, and when that vocation can or has been realized, then it is a moral duty of that individual to rehabilitate himself away from that sort of environment which is not in harmony with his chosen career (law enforcement).

A cop cannot be morally effective to his sworn duties if he lives in an environment where criminals and all sorts of scambugs also live and tread rubbing shoulders with cops who are also resident of the area.

Not only that the cops safety is always on the line, but also as the saying goes-" A cop cannot effectively enforce the law in his own backyard".
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Catheter removed from policeman’s stomach

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The Philippine Star 09/15/2006

COTABATO CITY — An operative of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) has sought the help of the local media to seek justice for what could be a "medical malpractice" that nearly cost his life.

This, after doctors at the Cotabato Regional Medical Center (CRMC) removed the other day from the stomach of PO2 Molin Asigurado a 12-inch catheter left there apparently during a surgery on his urethra in a Manila hospital in January 2005.

Asigurado hails from nearby Midsayap, North Cotabato, but is based at the CIDG’s main headquarters at Camp Crame.

Naresh Buxani, an oncologist at the CRMC, recommended the operation after discovering that a "foreign object" inside Asigurado’s stomach had been causing him weakness and pain.

Buxani is now preparing a medical abstract on Asigurado’s case, which will be used in the filing of appropriate charges against those responsible for the malpractice.

"I am just a poor policeman and this wrongdoing has caused me not just physical suffering, but has made me even poorer," Asigurado said in an interview with Catholic radio station dxMS here.

Asigurado said he has asked his CIDG superiors to help him prosecute the Manila-based physician responsible for his ordeal.

Dr. Johnny Rabago Jr., a ranking official of the Philippine Medical Association in Mindanao, said Asigurado has the right to file charges against the physician and the management of the hospital where he underwent his urethra surgery.

"He should consult a good lawyer first on what to do so that he would be guided accordingly," he said.

Rabago, who is based here, said the catheter found inside Asigurado’s stomach might have, indeed, been left there accidentally when he went under the knife last year.


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Can't the PNP provide legal assistance on this cop? How about their association?
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This is a medical misadventure by a negligent practitioner. The victim cop sustained unmeasurable pain and suffering as a result. It is a criminal negligence under Quasi Offenses of the Penal Code. A criminal action can be brought about under Art. 365 of the RPC for Reckless Imprudence resulting to injuries, that highly contribute to the victims deteriorating health.

In the civil aspects of the case for damages against the negligent practitioner or the institution where he was practicing his profession, an independent civil action maybe brought by the injured party during the pendency of the criminal case, provided the right is reserved.

It shall proceed independently of the crimiinal action,and shall require only a preponderance of evidence. In no case, however, may the offended party recover damages twice for the same act or omission charged in the criminal action.
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Calabarzon rookie cops unpaid for 5 months

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By Delfin Mallari Jr.
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Last updated 07:10pm (Mla time) 11/13/2006

LUCENA CITY -- Some 143 rookie cops who finished their seven-month basic police training course at the Regional Training School 4 (RTS4) at Camp Nakar here on Friday will be going to their assignments without a single peso of their monthly pay in their pockets.

“We have already finished our training but we have yet to receive our paychecks for the past five months,” some members of the batch told the Inquirer several days before their graduation.

The rookies will be deployed to rebel-infested areas of the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) region as part of the government’s strategy of deploying the Philippine National Police as the Armed Forces’ partner in the anti-insurgency campaign.

President Macapagal-Arroyo’s Executive Order No. 546 makes the police a co-equal partner with the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the anti-insurgency campaign.

The informants, who all requested anonymity, said they would be assigned to different police stations in Calabarzon with empty pockets. “Most of us are already deep in debt. We no longer know where to get the next meal for our families,” said one of them.

One of the cops interviewed by the Inquirer said 90 percent of their batch are married with children to support. He said the last time they received their monthly paycheck was on June 20, when they were given the checks for the months of April, May and June.

A police trainee receives a total of P11,900 every month, inclusive of a monthly allowance of P1,800.

The Inquirer informants said that when they asked the RTS4 finance officer about their back pay, the officer informed them they will get their back pay for five months in March 2007.

The finance officer reportedly said that their paychecks, for reasons unclear to them, were not included in the printing of checks for the last quarter of the year and will only be printed in the first quarter next year.

“Christmas is just around the corner and we will be in far places of assignment battling all sorts of criminals, including the heavily armed communist rebels, but our minds will be thinking of our hungry families,” said another rookie.

When sought, the concerned RTS4 finance officer was not available for comment on Monday.

However, some officials of the police training school confirmed the delay in the payment of the rookie cops' salaries.

“We really pity that batch. It’s true that they really don’t have money to pay for their debts. But it’s not the fault of our office. The nonpayment is the responsibility of the police officials in Canlubang headquarters or even those in Camp Crame,” said an RTS4 official, who also requested anonymity.

The official said another batch of 49 police trainees from the Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) region will also graduate this week.

“But their salaries have already been paid in full,” the official said.

One of the rookie cops interviewed by the Inquirer agreed that RTS4 was not at fault and placed the blame on “higher officials in Camp Crame.”

“We hope that with the publication of our plight, the police officials concerned will take action to remedy the problem. Most of our batch members are now being demoralized by the situation,” the rookie cop said.


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“Christmas is just around the corner and we will be in far places of assignment battling all sorts of criminals, including the heavily armed communist rebels, but our minds will be thinking of our hungry families,”


Sad... a situation where temptations knocks. :bs:
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