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PNP creates guidelines for police on engaging with community pantries
May 20, 2021 11:46 AM PHT
Jairo Bolledo
Amid the ongoing wrangle between community pantry organizers and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the Philippine National Police (PNP) said it has already crafted guidelines to be followed by cops when engaging with said pantries.
The PNP announced on Thursday, May 20, that the PNP Directorate for Police Community Relations has created guidelines that will be strictly followed by policemen designated to guard the pantries.
Under the guidelines, police presence in the vicinity of the pantries should only be for the purpose of maintaining peace and order and ensuring that minimum health protocols are being observed.
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PAMPANGA. Volunteers from Barangay San Nicolas in Masantol, Pampanga prepare the goods to be served to those who need them through a community pantry. (Contributed photo)
+ May 20, 2021 THE Philippine National Police (PNP) Directorate for Police Community Relations (DPCR) is crafting guidelines to be followed by police personnel in engaging with community pantry organizers to avoid any further misconceptions and misunderstanding.
PNP Chief General Guillermo Eleazar said under the guidelines, police presence in the vicinity of community pantries should not be to conduct profiling of organizers, but to maintain peace and order and ensure that minimum public health safety standards are strictly observed.
Published May 20, 2021, 10:42 AM
The apology of the head of the police’s Human Rights Affairs Office to community pantry organizers is a proof that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has no policy of harassing them amid allegations of police intimidation before that prompted some of them to stop their operation.
PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar reiterated that the organization has never sanctioned a profiling of community pantry organizers who have been selflessly offering help to those in need and fostering the Bayanihan spirit.
The Chief of the PNP-HRAO, Police Brig. Gen. Vincent Calanoga, said in a congressional hearing last Wednesday that the allegations on police profiling are already under investigation and being acted upon. He later apologized to the community pantry organizers who felt threatened or intimidated by the actions of some police officers.
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