QC councilor bats for proposal to make car theft non-bailable crime

With car theft cases going on unabated in Quezon City, a councilor has proposed that arrested car-jack suspects be prevented from taking the easy way out.

In a resolution, Councilor Godofredo T. Liban II urged his peers to strongly support proposals to make the crime a non-bailable offense.

Making car theft non-bailable may prove to be a “deterrent to the further proliferation of the crime,” he said in the draft resolution he submitted during the city council regular session last week.

Even as the city struggles to erase its image as “the car theft capital” of the nation, criminals have claimed the lives of more victims, including Teresa Teaño and car dealers Venson Evangelista and Emerson Lozano, Liban said.

Car-jackers getting bolder

“It appears that the [car-jackers] are growing bolder and seem even to be taunting the police authorities in the face of the apparent inability of the latter to solve car [thefts] in many areas of our country,” he added.

At the same time, the councilor quoted reports about the increasing number of cases “where the owner or driver of the vehicle is often slain or killed when he offers resistance.”