"Sometimes we plant evidence..."
It's been a while since I last made an entry to this blog. Mainly because I had non inspiration to write about anything. But this morning, as I ate breakfast and read the news, I just had to go online and write a rant.
It seems to me that people in authority are getting more and more careless. An example would be the Meralco fiasco currently gracing the headlines. Someone just had to blurt out that Meralco had been charging the public their own electricity usage or that we've been charged for electricity that has yet to be delivered. And just when you thought things couldn't get any more embarassing, they just did.
The director of the PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) admitted that his agency is forced to "plant evidence" in "some special cases."
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right. Undersecratary Dionisio Santiago (who won't be for long after this debacle is over) has confessed that under special circumstances, they are "forced" to plant evidence but only with "well-known drug traffickers" even though they know it is "against the law" to do so.
Has it sunk in, yet? The reprecussions of his quoted statement will have lasting consequences in the outcome of each and every case filed against drug traffickers (and users) for a decade or so. If Undersecratary Santiago was trying to impress people with the secret of his success, this statement is likely to backfire on the credibility of the PDEA and it's future leaders.
He should have just kept his mouth shut.
It seems to me that people in authority are getting more and more careless. An example would be the Meralco fiasco currently gracing the headlines. Someone just had to blurt out that Meralco had been charging the public their own electricity usage or that we've been charged for electricity that has yet to be delivered. And just when you thought things couldn't get any more embarassing, they just did.
The director of the PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) admitted that his agency is forced to "plant evidence" in "some special cases."
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard it right. Undersecratary Dionisio Santiago (who won't be for long after this debacle is over) has confessed that under special circumstances, they are "forced" to plant evidence but only with "well-known drug traffickers" even though they know it is "against the law" to do so.
Has it sunk in, yet? The reprecussions of his quoted statement will have lasting consequences in the outcome of each and every case filed against drug traffickers (and users) for a decade or so. If Undersecratary Santiago was trying to impress people with the secret of his success, this statement is likely to backfire on the credibility of the PDEA and it's future leaders.
He should have just kept his mouth shut.
posted by Aldwin Christopher at 11:06 PM
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