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.
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During a virtual hearing, the House Committee on Human Rights approved the consolidated version of the Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination bill, which seeks to prohibit discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, language, religious belief or expression, political or other opinions, national or social origin, property, birth and other status, and other protected attributes.
The measure also provides penalties for acts that inflict stigma, vilification and ridicule; profiling; inflicting harm on health and well-being; abuses by State and non-State actors; and arbitrary detention and confinement against those identified by this measure.
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The panel was then discussing the denial of rights to employment as an act of discrimination to be prohibited and penalized if the bill is passed signed into law.
Under this provision, it shall be prohibited to “deny an application for or revoke a professional license issued by the government” on the basis of the protected attributes enumerated in the bill, which includes sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.