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'May resibo dapat': Recto says PNP should use bodycams for drug ops

Published Apr 16, 2023 04:27 am
House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto (Facebook)


The Philippine National Police (PNP) should stop relying on closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras hoisted on lampposts and instead turn to body-worn cameras (bodycams) in accounting for operations, including drug busts. Thus, said House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto amid the reported involvement of high-ranking Philippine National Police (PNP) officials in the alleged cover-up of irregularities in the confiscation of some P6.7 billion worth of "shabu" in October 2022. “Whether the narcotics seized weigh one kilo or one ton, a video recording is the best receipt there is,” Recto said in a statement Sunday, April 16. “Mainam kung may resibo na mahirap ipagkaila. ‘Ika nga, may bodycam sa katawan at may dashcam sa sasakyan (It's better to have an irrefutable receipt. The bodycam is to the body what the dashcam is to a vehicle),’“ Recto said. He said in piecing together an operation, authorities should stop relying on “lamppost CCTVs” and instead source the footage from equipment they carry before, during and after the operation. Recto noted that the PNP has bodycams in its inventory. “Dapat kasama ‘yan sa OOTD (outfit of the day) ng mga pulis na sasabak sa mga operasyon laban sa droga (That should be part of the OOTD of cops that will conduct anti-illegal drug operations).” The presence of bodycams, he said, would serve as deterrent against any attempt by suspects and their backers to buy the freedom of the arrested, Recto said. It is an “anti-arbor” device, the former Senate President Pro Tempore said, referring to the street slang of suspects going scot-free after somebody influential intervened for their release. The PNP is now in hot water after two police generals – Police Lt. Gen. Benjamin Santos and Brig. Gen. Narciso Domingo, the relieved chief of the PDEG – and other high-ranking police officers were alleged to have been involved in the cover-up of the arrest of Master Sgt. Rodolfo Mayo Jr. This was in connection with the confiscation of 990 kilos of shabu worth P6.7 billion in Tondo, Manila in October last year. Recto said if it is now “SOP (standard operating procedure) for police officers and police units to blanket their activities with social media reportage, then why is such an important operation be spared of such coverage?”

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