July 15, 2007
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Prov’l dad: Revive DPS, ‘no-plate, no travel’ policy to prevent crimes

DISTURBED by the series of killings that has involved local officials and ordinary civilians in the past weeks, Sangguniang Panlalawigan member Renato Ma. R. Peralta proposed the revival of the Department Of Public Safety (DPS) law enforcement activities and a tougher implementation of the “no-plate, no travel” policy to prevent further killings around the province.

In a privilege speech just as the regular sessions of the 7th Sangguniang Panlalawigan opened, Peralta said the maintenance of peace and order in the should be the top priority of any government administration, especially if their thrust in on tourism and foreign investment.

“Shooting incidents have become common place in Ilocos Norte that there are some of us who can no longer be shocked whenever we hear of someone being gunned down in broad daylight. We have to worry, since, if this pace keeps up, it would only be a matter of time before our turn comes,” Peralta, who chairs the SP’s peace and order committee, said.

Though officers of the Philippine National Police claimed that the recent assassination of Bacarra Mayor Philip C. Velasco and Councilor Marcelo Andaya and followed by the killings of several barangay officials as isolated cases, Peralta said this is no longer believable.

With the spate of killings in the province, Peralta urged concerned authorities to revive the DPS’s law enforcement activities to supplement the personnel problems of the police and to be more tougher in the implementation of the “no-plate, no-travel” policy as well as to crack down on loose firearms in the province. These steps, Peralta added, are preliminary moves toward solving the soaring criminality in the province.

The veteran public official also appealed to the local courts to speed up resolution of cases filed in courts.

“We have been informed of backlogs in our local courts and worse, a notorious absentee judge whose backlog is idiomatically kilometric. As one of pillars of the justice system, speedy resolution of cases would not only immediately convict the guilty [but also] acquit the innocent. It would also serve as a stern warning to those who may want to challenge the law,” Peralta stressed as he added, “It would not harm anyone if we request ardently the Supreme Court’s strict monitoring of all cases pending before local salas so that the cases can be disposed off faster.”

Leilanie G. Adriano

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