Who needs the PNP?

HERE we go again.

Just when the provincial government and the police was gaining headway in the campaign against illegal drugs, the National Police Commission and the PNP hierarchy pulled out P/Sr. Supt. Rolie Saltat as “Officer-Charge”- Provincial Director at the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office, ostensibly guided by the reshuffling policy of the Commission on Elections.

No wonder the drug lords in the country were and are never intimidated by any attempt by police commands anywhere to stop them because it has the national government as its best ally, thanks to it its “six-month-rotation” policy.

Apparently, the Aquino government and its Daang Matuwid has no notion of how important the principle of accountability is to an organization to be effective. By merely designating police directors as “OICs’ for a 6-month period encourages our trained and schooled police officers to simply warm their new seats without need to initiate efforts to improve peace and order in the communities. With this pea-brained policy, the best service that senior officers can do for the organization is to pack and travel light, keep a template of their “plans” for presentation purposes to governors (and mayors), and to keep talking to the local media. With this policy, who needs the PNP?

Mr. Saltat has set an impressive pace in the war vs. illegal drugs and we can only hope his successor, P/Sr. Superintendent Edgar Allan Okubo can equal if not better Mr. Saltat’s performance before he moves on to his next post in six-months.

Mr. Okubo was named one of the outstanding police officers in 2013. Let’s see how he will in 2016 in Pangasinan. Good? Better? Or Worst? Good luck and good hunting, Mr. Okubo!

 

Cult of corruption

YOU hear a lot of our voters say these days that corruption is not much of an issue in the May 9 elections.  And of the four frontrunners in the presidential derby, only Jojo Binay is bathed in corruption issues.  Seemingly, Grace Poe, Mar Roxas and Rody Duterte come clean as a whistle.  But look at this:  Binay consistently leads in the surveys.  What does that tell us?  Listen to the common tao:  “Who is not corrupt?  Almost every politician is corrupt. Binay maybe corrupt, but he helps the poor.  The others do not and just steal and run away with people’s money.”  What has become of us?  We believe that Poe, Roxas and Duterte aren’t corrupt but we will still vote for Binay, who we admit is corrupt “but he helps the poor.”

Corruption has seemingly become a way of life that time might come when it degenerates into an abominable cult.  Creepy.

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