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Nalzaro: For lawyers safety or for IBP election?

SunStar + January 22, 2021 I USED to own and possess licensed firearms: a .9mm and .22 pistol. I used to carry these guns every time I left my residence, especially if I went out of town, because I was able to secure permits to carry firearms outside of the residence. But two years ago, I decided to “surrender” these firearms to the Police Regional Office 7’s firearms and explosives unit for safekeeping when I failed to renew their licenses. Until now, the guns are there. Due to the murders of lawyers here and in other places, some members of the legal profession have been alarmed. A group of lawyers from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Cebu chapter have come up with a proposal in what they termed “Lawyer Protection Program for Cebu Lawyers.”

Cebu lawyers propose own protection program against killings, may use hotline, safe-house and bodyguards

January 19, 2021 ASSESSING the threat. Relocating the threatened lawyer or judge to a safe-house. Close-in security. Training the lawyer on detecting the threat and dodging danger and harm. And less stringent legal requirements on gun-toting for the lawyer who wants to carry a firearm. Those measures highlight the Lawyer Protection Program for Cebu Lawyers proposed and formalized Monday, January 18, by 11 members of the Cebu province chapter of IBP or Integrated Bar of the Philippines. Ground zero in killings The lawyers noted that Cebu province is ground zero of the rash of killings, noting that 14 of our brethren have been killed since 2004. In 2020 alone, they said, two lawyers were killed. One media count placed the death toll, the group said, at 55 since 2016 across the country, the latest being the January 14 murder in Malaybalay Ciy, Bukidnon.

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