{"id":100157,"date":"2017-04-28T00:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100157"},"modified":"2017-04-28T00:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:59:55","slug":"hidden-cell-mess-needs-to-be-resolved-quickly-lacson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/28\/hidden-cell-mess-needs-to-be-resolved-quickly-lacson\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hidden cell’ mess needs to be resolved quickly\u2014Lacson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Friday described the reported ‘hidden cell’ inside a Manila Police District station as a “challenge” to the Philippine National Police (PNP) which needs to resolved quickly. (PNA photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u2014Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Friday described the reported ‘hidden cell’ inside a Manila Police District station as a “challenge” to the Philippine National Police (PNP) which needs to resolved quickly.<\/p>\n

“This is definitely another big challenge that the PNP leadership has to resolve with dispatch. There is no other way,” Lacson, former PNP chief said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The senator made this remark following reports that 12 people were found inside a “hidden cell” at the Manila Police District Station 1 in Tondo after members of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) conducted a surprise inspection.<\/p>\n

The CHR was reportedly tipped by an informant about a secret cell hidden behind a book shelf and that police extorted money from them.<\/p>\n

The report also said that MPD Station 1 chief Superintendent Robert Domingo denied this and said that the area is only a holding room for persons yet to undergo inquest proceedings because their regular cells were full.<\/p>\n

“If true, these policemen are no better than the kidnap-for-ransom gangs that I used to chase throughout my law enforcement career,” Lacson said.<\/p>\n

He, meanwhile, said that police responsible should be given the same treatment as criminals.<\/p>\n

“Those responsible must therefore be treated no differently from those criminal syndicates that they themselves are mandated to neutralize,” he added.<\/p>\n

Liberal Party acting president Sen. Francis Pangilinan, like Lacson, said that the matter should be investigated thoroughly and that those involved are “swiftly punished.”<\/p>\n

Pangilinan cited several cases were members of the PNP have abused their office “under the guise of the war on drugs” and urged authorities to address what he described as a “systematic pattern of abuse.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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