SunStar April 25, 2021 I am not undermining the police capability in handling criminal investigations. But sloppy police investigation led to the dismissal of cases at the prosecutor’s office and in the court. Worse, no progress in their investigations and no cases will be filed at all. But we cannot solely blame the police in criminal investigations because there are several factors also to be considered.
Are our police criminal investigators really well trained? Most of our policemen now under the law creating the Philippine National Police (PNP) are graduates of a four-year course and most of them are even Criminology graduates. Most of the officials are graduates of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) and took advanced courses under the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and I believed they took a course on criminal investigation.