Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde said it cannot be guaranteed that there will be zero hazing-related incidents upon the signing of the Anti-Hazing Act of 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, probably we still have several cases [of hazing] that are not being reported to authorities. We cannot immediately expect a zero-crime incident even after that law was signed,\u201d the PNP chief said.<\/p>\n
However, he assured that despite the fact that total eradication of hazing cannot happen now, it will,\u00a0at least, be minimized. But in due time, such initiation ceremony will eventually be eliminated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the way it is. There is a time for adjustment and we will do that little by little until eventually, it will be eradicated,\u201d Albayalde said.<\/p>\n
He cited the improvement that\u2019s already happening in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), where records of hazing incident have been decreasing.<\/p>\n
While he admitted the presence\u00a0of hazing rites in PMA, Albayalde defended that the practice is viewed as a \u201ccherished tradition.\u201d Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde said it cannot be guaranteed that there will be zero hazing-related …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171199","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=171199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 07\/ 13 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"