{"id":132099,"date":"2017-11-17T22:09:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T03:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=132099"},"modified":"2017-11-17T22:09:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T03:09:35","slug":"pnp-chief-wants-more-body-cameras-for-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/17\/pnp-chief-wants-more-body-cameras-for-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP chief wants more body cameras for cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94688\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190422_1464963133544938_8600992254225198001_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94688\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190422_1464963133544938_8600992254225198001_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: PNP chief Director General Ronald \u201cBato\u201d Dela Rosa (Photo: Philippine National Police\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190422_1464963133544938_8600992254225198001_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190422_1464963133544938_8600992254225198001_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17190422_1464963133544938_8600992254225198001_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: PNP chief Director General Ronald \u201cBato\u201d Dela Rosa (Photo: Philippine National Police\/ Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief, Director General Ronald dela Rosa, said that should President Rodrigo Duterte reconsider and again give the police the lead in the ongoing anti-drug campaign, he would push for more body cameras for operatives deployed for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Pipilitin namin na ma<\/em>-procure\u00a0<em>namin yung<\/em>\u00a0body cameras\u00a0<em>para ma<\/em>-issue\u00a0<em>namin sa lahat ng aming<\/em>\u00a0anti-drug operatives.\u00a0<em>Para kung sila ay mag<\/em>-conduct\u00a0<em>ng<\/em>\u00a0buy-bust operations, transparent\u00a0<em>tayo. Kapag mabalik kami sa<\/em>\u00a0war on drugs,\u00a0<em>dapat mabili na namin yung aming<\/em>\u00a0body cameras (If we are reassigned to the war on drugs, we will see to it that we procure body cameras that will be issued to our operatives, so that when they conduct buy-bust operations, everything would be transparent),&#8221; dela Rosa said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte earlier placed the PNP on the sidelines of the anti-drug campaign after three teenagers were reported to have been killed in police operations.<\/p>\n<p>The President gave the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency the lead role in the anti-drug drive.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Rosa said that in hindsight, their overzealousness and failure to rid their ranks of scalawags had affected their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ang pagkakamali namin? Siguro yung sobrang gigil. Inaamin namin na hindi pa rin namin<\/em>\u00a0totally\u00a0<em>na-<\/em>cleanse\u00a0<em>yung aming<\/em>\u00a0ranks before we waged the war on drugs.<em>\u00a0Dapat sana na-<\/em>cleanse<em>muna namin yung aming<\/em>\u00a0ranks\u00a0<em>bago kami bumanat sa<\/em>\u00a0war on drugs,\u00a0<em>para hindi masakyan ng mga hunyango na mga<\/em>\u00a0narco cops,\u00a0<em>mga<\/em>\u00a0ninja cops\u00a0<em>yung aming<\/em>\u00a0operations (Our mistake? Perhaps we were too eager. We admit that we have not totally cleansed our ranks of bad eggs before we waged the war on drugs. We should have done that to prevent these ninja cops from riding on the anti-drug campaign),&#8221; he added.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief, Director General Ronald dela Rosa, said that should President Rodrigo Duterte reconsider and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":94688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[23347,14413,18681,729],"class_list":["post-132099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-body-cameras","tag-director-general-ronald-dela-rosa","tag-philippine-national-police-pnp","tag-police","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}