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Published January 18, 2021, 1:33 PM
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) criticized the slow and elusive pursuit of justice in the case of 15-year-old Fabel Pineda, who was killed by police officers in Ilocos Sur six months ago.
Pineda and her cousin, Bernadette Saniatan, attended a friend’s party in San Juan, Ilocos Sur, on June 27. Because they allegedly violated curfew, two policemen offered to take them home. However, they were taken to a beach where Pineda was sexually molested while Saniatan was raped.
After filing a complaint against the two policemen, the girls were ambushed and Pineda was shot dead. The Philippine National Police (PNP) has condemned the act and vowed to hold the perpetrators accountable.
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The number of police deployment ballooned to more or less a third of the 220,000 personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) as cities and municipalities in the Visayas and Mindanao also implemented their own community quarantine measures and as health and security experts saw the need to make the presence of the police felt on every streets to compel the people to behave towards protecting themselves at least via wearing of face masks and observing physical distancing.
The Joint Task Force COVID Shield, then headed by Police Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, even went to the extent of deploying elite police commandos and soldiers on board armed personnel carriers to force hard-headed people not to go out – an effective formula which health experts acknowledged to be contributing factor in the reduction of COVID cases which was later adopted in Cebu City when an upsurge of infection was monitored in the middle of this year.