DILG To Deploy Tracker Teams To Rearrest GCTA Convicts
DILG – DILG recently said on Tuesday that they will deploy tracker teams which will rearrest early released convicts due to “good conduct”.
According to Inquirer, the early release of the convicts of heinous crimes is due to the GCTA law or the Good Conduct Time Allowance.
Department of Interior and Local Government secretary Eduardo Año said that the tracker teams will be deployed in order to rearrest these convicts who committed heinous crimes, if ever their release orders be revoked.
Año further said that it will not be the same as locating underground personalities, further stressing that most of them should be back on their homes by now.
He also clarified that there is no need for a warrant to arrest the convicts in case their release orders are revoked since they are already fugitives to begin with, noting that their standing warrant will still be in effect.
As per the report, the Interior secretary is sure that the convicted will be easy to arrest again yet he still considered the possibility that there will be some who will resist arrest.
Año further said that the convicts should stay back in prison, including Chinese drug lords, noting that the re-computation of good conduct credits are not well managed.
He lastly said that they have to identify the convicts of heinous crimes, further stressing if the convict is identified as a serious killer, the people are at risk.
Out of 22, 049 inmates, only 1, 914 of them are arrested for heinous crimes and were given early release after Republic Act 10592, which mandates the good conduct law., according to the Bureau of Corrections.
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