How not to catch a suspect
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
With the Court of Appeals (CA) denying yesterday fugitive Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s petition for a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the arrest warrant issued against him by a lower court for his alleged involvement in the Dacer-Corbito double murders, as well as his plea for a reinvestigation of his case at the Department of Justice (DoJ), its chief, Leila de Lima, has no choice but to make good her order to the special National Bureau of Investigaton (NBI) team to find and arrest Lacson, the principal suspect in the Dacer-Corbito murder case.
It is expected, based on De Lima’s claim that reliable information has it that Lacson’s whereabouts have already been pinpointed and that she has given the NBI, and presumably, the Philippine National Police, the order to find the fugitive senator and arrest him, for him to face trial and be provided due process.
But can she and her NBI deliver? There certainly are doubts.
Many times, the style of the NBI, as well as the DoJ, police and the military -- present and previous governments are no exception -- is to publicly claim that they have already identified the suspects, and know their whereabouts supposedly based on intelligence data, even when they are clueless about such things..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101204com2.html
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