Cops shaming the Philippine National Police (PNP) deserved to be shamed, according to Sen. Panfilo Lacson, a former PNP chief himself. “They deserve nothing less,” Lacson said in reaction to the way President Rodrigo Duterte dressed down on Tuesday over 200 policemen with offenses who were presented to the chief executive as part of the PNP’s cleansing its ranks of rogue policemen. But Lacson said this could also lift the morale of straight cops because they would see something being done about the problem. Lacson said the abduction and killing last year of Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo really was a wake up a call to the PNP. Lacson also hoped that the next time the PNP present rogue cops to the President it would include their individual files stating the offenses they had committed.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 08, 2017 12:39 UTC