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Police Auxillaries
Topic Started: Aug 20 2008, 09:45 PM (693 Views)
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Now what?

PNP to train, arm civilian volunteers vs MILF
08/20/2008 | 09:28 PM

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine National Police is set to recruit civilian volunteers to beef up the defense system in Mindanao in case of another attack by Moro rebels.

PNP spokesman Chief Supt. Nicanor Bartolome said the hiring process will be similar to that of the military's employing of Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu).

Bartolome said the hired civilian volunteers will be furnished with firearms and given allowances and uniforms.

"They will be called police auxiliaries," he said.

Bartolome made the announcement two days after Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked Kolambugan town in Lanao del Norte where a number of civilians were killed.

The police official said the move is to ensure that certain villages in Mindanao, particularly in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte, will be safe when police and military left the areas for another mission.

"We are continuously strengthening the defense of areas especially with common boundaries where movements of armed groups have been detected,"
Bartolome said.

Bartolome allayed fears that the recruitment and arming of civilian volunteers will lead to lawlessness in the area.

"These volunteers will be properly trained, just like the Cafgu of the Armed Forces. We will not just get anyone and then arm them. Before doing so, they will be properly selected, they will properly trained," he said.

He added that the recruitment will be done in coordination with local government units, as mandated in Executive Order 546.

As much as possible, Bartolome said those who will be hired would be residents of areas where the defense system will be put “since the idea is for them to serve as augmentation to the local police once the cops and military personnel earlier deployed pull out.”

He added that several firearms, mostly shotguns, were already sent in some areas in the affected areas of recent clashes as part of the putting up of defense systems.

The salary and the area assignments of the hired volunteers, however, are yet to be determined. - GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/115019/PNP-to-...unteers-vs-MILF
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It is a good scheme to augment the undermanned PNP. However they should observe stringent procedures in accepting volunteers to get rid of enemies being accepted and also those who might be the the abusers that would bring the PNP into the bad light.
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PNP arms civilians in Davao

To help troops fight MILF


By BEN D. ARCHE

DIGOS CITY — The provincial police office here has ordered three municipal police offices in Davao del Sur to submit the names of selected barangay tanods, civilian volunteers and police auxiliary who are qualified to carry firearms.

Senior Supt. Cesario Darantinao, Davao del Sur police director said he has already instructed the police chiefs of Don Marcelino, Jose Abad Santos and Sarangani towns that each of them has to furnish the provincial office with at least 30 names.

The Police Regional Office Xl said it will be providing shotguns to civilian groups in "threatened municipalities" to assist the military and the police against possible attacks of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

The towns of Don Marcelino, Jose Abad Santos and Sarangani were among the eight municipalities in Region ll identified as high risk for MILF attacks.

A military intelligence report tagged the town of Jose Abad Santos as the "temporary refuge" for MILF combatants wounded during military offensives in Maasim, Sarangani Province the other week.

Chief Supt. Andres Caro II, Region 11 police director said the regional office will be issuing at least 250 shotguns to selected towns in the region.

Caro said the issuance of firearms for tanods, civilian volunteers and police auxiliaries in the region is part of the national defense plan to avert MILF attacks.

Davao Oriental will be issued with 120 shotguns for the municipalities of Taragona, Man-ay, Caraga and Banaybanay, with at least 30 shotguns for each town.

Davao del Sur will be provided with 30 shotguns while the town of Pantukan in Compostela Valley Province will get 40 shotguns.

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And they don't know about it... :drunk:

Police execs admit having a hard time disbanding CVOs
12/15/2009 | 09:41 PM

Police officials admitted during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that authorities were having a hard time breaking up the so-called civilian volunteer organizations (CVO), whose creation had no legal basis.

“We are trying to disband them but there are some that are actually used by the government forces themselves," Director Andres Caro, head of the Philippine National Police (PNP) directorate for operations, said during a Senate hearing on the Maguindanao massacre.

Authorities also agreed with the view of Sen. Rodolfo Biazon, chairman of the Senate committee on national defense, that the creation of CVOs had no legal basis because Executive Order No. 546 issued by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on July 14, 2006, only mandates the deputization of barangay tanods “as force multipliers in the implementation of peace and order."

According to Caro, deputization does not mean that barangay tanods (literally, "village guards") or CVOs will be given firearms. “There is no rule or law that they should be armed," he said.

Director Raul Castañeda, head of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, said the term CVO only surfaced during the investigation into the Maguindanao massacre.

"The CVOs were mentioned during the conduct of investigation because those are the words stated and described by the witnesses," he said, adding that the PNP was looking into who were behind the arming of the CVOs in Maguindanao.

Biazon, a former Armed Forces chief, was outraged after finding out from the PNP that it did not know who was controlling the CVOs.

"Talagang malilintikan tayo, hindi natin alam and yet they are out there killing people. Hindi natin alam kung ano (itong organisasyon na ito), ni walang pangalan ng CVO on legal documents. Paano naman ito? Talagang magproproliferate ang mga private armies," the senator said.

(We will really get in trouble for this, we don’t know and yet they are out there killing people. We don’t know what this organization really is, there’s even no name of the CVO on legal documents. How could this be? Private armies will really proliferate.)

"You claim that you are responsible for the CVOs and it is turning out that you have a vague idea of what is the CVO," Biazon told police officials during the hearing. - AMITA O. LEGASPI, GMANews.TV

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Those CVO volunteers are mostly criminals under protection by politicians They are the private armies just like the ones under the Ampatuans. The government just tolerated it for election rigging purposes in the south.

That's the reason why all along in my comments that the government played a clear part on the atrocities committed by this CVO in the multiple murder case in Maguindanao. Now, it has been admitted to be illegal and not recognized. Now it's time to dismantle this group and inquiries should be made to establish whose regime is responsible to be accounted for the mass murders with the Ampatuans.
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