{"id":233930,"date":"2019-10-08T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T01:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=233930"},"modified":"2019-10-08T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T01:26:32","slug":"next-pnp-chief-must-be-honest-competent-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/08\/next-pnp-chief-must-be-honest-competent-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Next PNP chief must be honest, competent: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte gives the thumbs up while delivering his speech during the mass oath taking of newly appointed government officials at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace on July 8, 2019. ALFRED FRIAS\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo Duterte wants the next Philippine National Police (PNP) chief to be honest, competent, and free from irregularities amid reports of cops recycling illegal drugs, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte is selecting from four candidates but will keep it to himself for the meantime.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (Duterte) will decide on the basis of competence and honesty,\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are honest,\u00a0di ibig sabihin wala kang kaso<\/em>\u00a0(that means you have no cases) relative to any irregularity.\u00a0Pag competent ka, di ibig sabihin magaling ka sa trabaho mo<\/em>\u00a0(If you\u2019re competent, that means you\u2019re good at your job),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Asked if Duterte would consider appointing someone he does not personally know, Panelo said it would depend on the President.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes\u00a0siguro (<\/em>perhaps) he appoints on the basis of reputation preceding the appointee,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Duterte earlier said he would be more careful in selecting the next PNP to avoid \u201cstumbling\u201d again.<\/p>\n

Panelo said he did not know if Duterte was referring to PNP chief, Gen. Oscar Albayalde, who is accused of involvement in the illegal drug trade. but said he would ask the President to clarify what he meant.<\/p>\n

\u201cMahirap mag-interpret sa sinabi niya dahil hindi\u2026 hindi\u2026 Hindi, kasi hindi masyadong klaro kung kanino niya nire<\/em>-refer o whatever (It\u2019s hard to interpret what he said. It wasn\u2019t clear who he was referring to),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Albayalde earlier said since an investigation is ongoing, the public should \u201cmove on\u201d from the issue.<\/p>\n

However, Panelo said Palace could not simply move on since the results of the investigation have yet to be released.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as Malaca\u00f1ang is concerned, there is an ongoing investigation as instructed by the President,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first place, you can\u2019t stop the public from talking about it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Panelo said the irregularities hounding the PNP should not affect the President\u2019s campaign against illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is the President has dismantled many drug apparatus in this country and jailed many police scalawags involved in the drug operation and arrested many people involved in pushing the illegal drugs and many have surrendered, many have been rehabilitated,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— President Rodrigo Duterte wants the next Philippine National Police (PNP) chief to be honest, competent, and free from irregularities …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":222094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233930","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233931,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233930\/revisions\/233931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}