Marcos also said the bill did not introduce any 'significant measure' that would improve the PNP's capacity to 'implement the highest standards of integrity and accountability in the police force.'
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. leads the graduation ceremony of the first batch of Moro combatants who successfully completed the Bangsamoro Police Basic Recruit Course.MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has vetoed a measure that seeks to introduce reforms to the Philippine National Police , citing its inconsistencies with government policies and the lack of any "significant measure" that would increase cops' accountability.
The vetoed measure is a consolidated version of Senate Bill 2449 and House Bill 8327. Its principal authors are Sen. Ramon Revilla and House Speaker Martin Romualdez, the president's cousin, respectively. "The purported enhancement of the Internal Affairs Service consists of adding the ground of the alleged involvement of police personnel in crimes like murder for the IAS's motu proprio investigation," Marcos said.
"The administrative relationships among the CSC, Department of the Interior and Local Government and PNP, including the procedures for disciplinary measures, are not clarified," he added. During the House panel's first hearing into abuses during Duterte's drug war, lawyer Neri Colmenares pointed out the government's apparent lack of interest to seriously investigate drug war killings, citing data that shows only 52 out of over 6,000 killings admitted by the police have been so far investigated.
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