Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief General Debold Sinas should be investigated for allegedly violating COVID-19 protocols again, this time when he visited Oriental Mindoro last week.

Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, a former PNP chief, said it is only proper to investigate Sinas’ supposed failure to observe health protocols since this is his second infraction.

The first time Sinas’ violated COVID-19 protocols—through a “mañanita” event held at Camp Crame—was during his birthday in May last year, 2020.

Sinas, again, skipped health protocols when he visited Oriental Mindoro on Thursday, March 11, according to the provincial government’s officials. It was also the same day that the PNP chief was confirmed to have been infected by COVID-19.

“I agree he should be investigated. Like in baseball, there’s strike 2. In the initial investigation, he was already Strike 1, on the ‘mananita’ issue,” Lacson said in an interview over Radio DZBB.

“These are the bitter lessons that we shouldn’t have had to deal with again because it involves health. Now, Mindoro is scrambling to find out whom he had contact with because he was already positive for COVID,” the senator lamented.

Nevertheless, he said, he can only hope that Sinas would recover immediately and that his case would not progress to severe.

“First of all, we should wish him well. I hope it doesn’t become severe. I hope it’s just mild or he remains asymptomatic,” Lacson said.

“Let’s first think about the life of another person before we talk about his mistakes,” he pointed out.