Tourist bus siege review body formed
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Aytch S. de la Cruz 08/26/2010 A senior official of the Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the formation of a new ad hoc inter-agency incident review committee (IIRC) to investigate the Quirino Grandstand hostage drama last Monday. DoJ officer-in-charge Jose Vicente Salazar yesterday said the committee aims to look into logistic, operational and administrative problems that led to bloody end of hostage taking in Luneta by a disgruntled policeman. “There will be a dual objective, the first one would be to determine (what really happened in) that particular incident, that is why we have two timelines for the committee, this is just a proposal of course and we intend to also examine the institutional problems which might have contributed to the incident,” he added. Salazar said representatives from the inter-agency composed of DoJ, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducted an initial meeting on Tuesday night to deal with concerns on the hostage drama. “There was already an initial report given to the Justice secretary (Leila de Lima) and she transmitted it to the President and by this evening (Wednesday), we are going to have a meeting, the first meeting not as ad-hoc but this time as the incident review committee at the DILG office,” he added. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100826hed3.html |
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