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Before entertaining thoughts of arming civilian volunteers to help stop criminality, the Philippine National Police (PNP) should focus on showing it can protect them, Senator and former PNP Chief Panfilo M. Lacson said.
Lacson also reiterated the PNP must be stricter especially in issuing Permits to Carry Firearms Outside Residences (PTCFORs) to civilians including senators, congressmen and other ranking government officials. The PNP should make it a point first to show that it is efficient, professional, and competent to protect civilians on the streets from malefactors - including those with unlicensed guns and irresponsible gun holders that make them a threat - before it issues PTCFORs to deputize civilian volunteers as force multipliers, Lacson, who headed the PNP from 1999 to 2001, said in an interview on TeleRadyo.
Published June 30, 2021, 10:37 AM
The Philippine National Police (PNP) should focus on showing it can protect them before entertaining thoughts of arming civilian “volunteers” to help stop criminality, Senator Panfilo M. Lacson said on Wednesday, June 30.
Lacson, chairman of the Senate national defense and security committee, also reiterated the PNP must be stricter especially in issuing Permits to Carry Firearms Outside Residences (PTCFORs) to civilians including senators, congressmen and other ranking government officials.
“The PNP should make it a point first to show that it is efficient, professional, and competent to protect civilians on the streets from malefactors – including those with unlicensed guns and irresponsible gun holders that make them a threat – before it issues PTCFORs to deputize civilian ‘volunteers’ as force multipliers,” Lacson, who headed the PNP from 1999 to 2001, said in an interview on TeleRadyo.
Published June 27, 2021, 3:05 PM
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday, June 27 thumbed down President Duterte’s proposal to arm civilians, saying stricter gun control, including stringent issuance or even suspension of firearm permits would be a better solution to stopping criminality in the Philippines.
Lacson, a former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, warned that issuing firearms to anti-crime “volunteers” to help enforce the law may result in even more crimes, especially if this is abused.
“Arming civilians to fight criminality could backfire, especially if they don’t have the proper training and mindset,” Lacson said.
“In the United States, there have been so many fatal shootings due to loose firearm laws,” he stressed.
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Stricter gun control measures by the Philippine National Police, including the more stringent issuance or even suspension of Permits to Carry Firearms Outside Residences (PTCFORs), would be a better solution to stopping criminality than arming civilians, Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson said Sunday.
Lacson, who headed the PNP from 1999 to 2001, warned that the prospect of issuing firearms to anti-crime volunteers to help enforce the law may result in even more crime, especially if this is abused. Arming civilians to fight criminality could backfire, especially if they don t have the proper training and mindset. In the United States, there have been so many fatal shootings due to loose firearm laws, he said at a forum in Manila.
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