Cops identified with politicos to get boot
IT IS a given fact: no member of the Philippine National Police should engage himself or herself in partisan politics.
This, PNP Regional Director Chief Supt. Isagani Cuevas reiterated, as he pointed out that the law prohibits any policeman, or government law enforcers for that matter, to indulge in political partisanship.
And to do away possible problems relative to political biases among cops in Western Visayas, Cuevas said that they would implement transfer or reassignment.
For now, he claimed that they are reviewing related information about the political candidates and their possible affiliation to PNP members.
“It’s routine on the part of the PNP. If you want a personnel to be effective, you transfer him or reassign him,” he said.
As such, “if a personnel is identified with a certain politician or those running for public offices, they shall be given reassignments,” the region’s top cop added.
In the past, though, Cuevas said that there are policemen who also expressed desire to be reassigned to a certain area because they have relatives running for an elective position.
“Our cops know that their political leanings might cause their position in the PNP,” he added citing some incidence that policemen were dragged into facing administrative complaints because of their alleged partisanship.
“So, if they think nga mainit for the time being, pa re-assign anay sila. That is my advise to some personnel,” he added.
Cuevas said that the reassignment is not about just relieving a personnel from his current post and transferring him to a different area.
“We want to re-assign them because it is our desire that that they will be more effective in the performance of their duty and functions,” he added.
Secondly, Cuevas said that they would not like that personnel will be implicated or identified with some persons in an area.
In the meantime, the PNP regional chief said that they are doing verifications and assessment or validations of information about politicians and their relationships with policemen in a certain locality.
Cuevas admitted to the fact that it becomes questionable if a PNP personnel is a relative of those running for public office.
It is surmised that a policemen would favor that candidate and thus, create tension.
