Newsbriefs

New police barracks

ROOKIE policemen assigned at the Regional Public Safety Batallion (RPSB) in Sibonga town, south of Cebu, will soon have new buildings and facilities.

Yesterday,  Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 director Chief Supt. Marcelo Garbo led the ground breaking for the construction of four barracks, a grandstand and tennis that will cost more than a million of pesos.

But Garbo said they have P520,000 as of now from the donations of businessmen.

Garbo said he would welcome donations from local government units for them to finish the project.

The policemen assigned at RPSB stay in dilapidated barracks.

But they have newly constructed comfort rooms and water tanks built during the stint of former PRO-7 directors Ager Ontog and Lani-O Nerez.

Meanwhile, at least 26 police officials from Regions 6, 7 and 8 have undergone a 45-day tactical commander’s training conducted at RPSB headquarters.

Director Leocadio Santiago Jr., chief of the Directorate for Operation of Camp Crame who represented PNP Chief Nicanor Batolome, told the 26 police officials to “put into good man what you have learned”.

The tactical commander’s training is aimed at enhancing the basic police training for the officers to become good commanders. /Correspondent Chito O. Aragon

Judiciary issues

AMID the issues confronting the country right now, a former chief justice described the Philippine justice system as flawed and weak.

“There is lack of independence in the country’s judicial system. Our judiciary is weak, it cannot stand its ground against the legislative and the executive,” he said during a forum held at the University of San Carlos College of Law and Business Department.

According to Puno, the conflict between legislative and executive concept is borrowed and patterned from the American constitution.

“What we need is not change in constitution but change in character. The translation is, let’s just pray,” he said.

On the other hand, USC College of Law Dean Alex Monteclar said the country’s political reform is long overdue.

Another speaker, Philip Camara, founder of Subsidiarity International said the Philippines merely copied its legal system from its colonizers, the US and Spain.

“There is a sort of alienation in our Philippine legal system because there is no connection felt by the people,” added Camara.

According to Camara there is a slow progress in our country compared to other nations because of the “Superiority” principle that the Philippine government had codified and patterned for more than century.

Camara suggested that the country should shift from “Superiority” to “Subsidiarity” to bring the people together. /STC Intern Tweeny Malinao