MANILA, Philippines — Senator Richard Gordon is seeking the passage of a bill that would establish police courts to handle the cases of Philippine National Police (PNP) members facing civil or criminal raps.
“[This is] in the interest of speedy justice and to prevent us losing the trust and confidence [of the public] and to prevent also the policemen from hiding within the gargantuan bureaucracy of the courts as well as the police system,” Gordon said during Thursday’s hearing of the Senate justice panel, which he chairs.
“I would like to emphasize that we are not accusing the whole rank and file of 200,000 plus police force. There are just a few of them but they’re too many, few…
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