Kaban ni D_BystandeR: KAPOLISAN NAHIMONG BADLONGON???

"What's happening to our country, General?" This was the unforgettable question blurted out by Vice President Maning Pelaez, that popular and flamboyant politician from Mindanao (Cagayan de Oro City), as he laid there bloodied inside his car as a police team headed by the famed  General Tomas Karingal responded to the shooting incident. Maning Pelaez was ambushed on his way home driven by his trusted and  longtime driver who died in that incident. I was tempted to mention that quotation made popular years ago by Pelaez because the series of unsavory stories involving policemen in our country today are making headlines in the news. Just recently, the 8 cops involved in a broad daylight robbery of an SUV in EDSA, Manila, where the occupants were divested of several millions of pesos intended to buy heavy equipment for Iligan, Lanao del Norte is still vividly fresh in our minds. And now  we have another one in Cebu City where a drunken policeman barged into a house and pointed his gun to one of the occupants. Another one was reported hitting a taxi driver 3 times in his face with fist blows while the latter was helping an elderly lady in a cane getting off his taxicab. But city residents need not to worry because "we are in good hands!" Our PRO-7 Director Tom Banas is taking note of these incidents and he promised to do something drastic against these erring cops so they will not be bothering peaceful citizens in the city again.

Footnote: This comment came out in connection with a TF news item headlined, "PRO-7 orders probe vs Fuente chief, another cop." The drunken policeman was brought to the Fuente Police Station under Chief Inspector Wildemar Tiu by a responding Mobile Group but what came out to the knowledge of General Tom Banas was that the gun used by the cop involved was not listed in the blotter, that was why he conducted investigation on the Fuente Station Commander Tiu.