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\tMANILA, Philippines – The government\u2019s plan to conduct a lifestyle check on officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) should include policemen who are \u201cdoubling as gambling lords,\u201d a well-placed source told The STAR yesterday.<\/p>\n
\tThe source said the PNP listed 27 policemen moonlighting as gambling lords last year and the number may have swelled because \u201cmore and more policemen are also now financiers or operators of video karera machines, bookies of small-town lotteries and horse racing, and other illegal activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThese erring policemen are also among the \u201c15-30 cops\u201d who report only during paydays, the source said.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThey are not meted administrative sanctions because they bribe their superiors to make them appear to be reporting for work when the truth is they are in their respective mansions monitoring their illegal gambling businesses,\u201d said the source, who requested anonymity.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThese policemen doubling as gambling lords are receiving a decent salary from the government but are not exercising their duties as what their oath of allegiance called for. The government is hit by a double-whammy in their existence in the police force,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n
\tWorst, these erring policemen are not paying the correct taxes, the source claimed.<\/p>\n
\tThe Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Bureau of Internal Revenue are set to conduct a lifestyle check among police officials in a bid to weed out corrupt PNP members and make them accountable for their misdeeds.<\/p>\n
\tThe lifestyle check came in the wake of recent criminal incidents involving law enforcers, including a robbery along EDSA in Mandaluyong City, a photo of which was posted online and went viral early this month.<\/p>\n
\tPNP chief Director General Alan Purisima has ordered an investigation into a \u201cquota system\u201d which reportedly forces police officers to collect weekly bribes from illegal activities on behalf of higher officials.<\/p>\n
\tPurisima ordered the probe to determine the veracity of the information given by a ranking police officer, said PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThis is a serious allegation. We should check first the validity but at the same time when the reports came out, there was an instruction to establish the validity and veracity of his allegations,\u201d Sindac added.<\/p>\n
\tBut the well-placed source told The STAR that it is an open secret among police officials who have enriched themselves in their positions and who are doubling as gambling lords.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThere\u2019s no need for a whistle-blower because a majority of the police officials who enriched themselves and the gambling lords are the talk of the town in police camps. They are very poor several years back, but are now living in mansions and using expensive vehicles,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n
\tThe government should also include in its lifestyle check the \u201cbagmen\u201d or \u201cengkargado\u201d of police officials who are implementing the quota system.<\/p>\n
\tThe source noted that every police station and district, provincial and regional office maintains a bagman who \u201csupervises\u201d the money-making schemes of their commanders. The bagmen are either junior officers or enlisted men who are trusted by their commanders, while others got the position through the highest \u201cbid.\u201d With Delon Porcalla, Ric Sapnu=<\/p>\n
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