Senator Sherwin Gatchalian to file a bill.
SHERWIN GATCHALIAN – Philippine Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said that he will file a bill which would require police officers to wear body cameras during raids.
According to a report released by the GMA News, it was on Monday when the senator said that he will file a bill as it was after the controversial slain of the Grade 11 student Kian Loyd Delos Santos.
The senator said that the cameras put on the body of the police officers conducting an operation will be a “powerful tool” to “ensure the transparency in drug raids.”
Gatchalian said, “Footage collected from police body cams would provide concrete evidence to hold police scalawags administratively and criminally liable for violating their oath to serve and protect the people.”
The bill will require the police officers to wear body cameras during search and buy-bust operations in order to record the whole incident.
And policemen who will fail to comply this requirement will have to face suspension and if ever the operation will not be recorded resulting in the injury or death of the drug suspect, the cop will be dismissed from the service and “recommended for criminal prosecution.”
Gatchalian even urged the chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Ronald Dela Rosa and other police authorities to support the said bill.
It was April of the previous year when Muntinlupa City Representative Ruffy Biazon at the House of Representatives proposed a similar bill.
It has been a “bloody week” for the Philippines lately.
Late July, 16 people died in Ozamiz City including Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog and his wife during the raid of the authorities at dawn.
Last week marked the death of at least 90 drug suspects on raids held at Bulacan and Manila.
And the death of Kian Loyd Delos Santos ignited different reactions from the people and had collected a nationwide grief.
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