New PNP Dir. Gen. Jesus Versoza On Human Rights
The Philippine National Police (PNP) Dir. Gen. Jesus Verzosa issued a memorandum today to warned all 125,000 police force to avoid presentation of suspects to media. He called it “firing squad presentation”. According to the memorandum, violators will be meted with administrative sanctions.
The memorandum answered the request of Human Rights Commission to stop presenting a suspect before the media since it constitutes a violation of the person’s constitutional rights.
Its a common scene in TV news, suspects are wearing prison shirt when presented to media. When it was started, I didn’t recall. As far as I know, its pogi points to “somebody” who caught the suspect and/or who lead the capture of the suspects. Its sort of a “medal” of their sort of “accomplishment”.
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