PNP gives up hunt for criminals in honor of PCGG

Friday, January 4, 2013


Manila, Philippines-- Inspired by the Presidential Commission on Good Government giving up the hunt for the Marcoses' ill-gotten wealth, the Philippine National Police announced yesterday they no longer want to chase criminals, saying that "a lot of them have already been elected to Congress and Senate, anyway."

PNP Director General Alan Purisima said that the costs of pursuing criminals have amounted to "major major" millions of pesos every year, "an amount not even our kotong system can sufficiently support."

Purisima was echoing PCGG chairman Andres Bautista, who proposed Tuesday that the commission end its 30-year hunt for the billions of dollars believed to have been siphoned by the dictator. In the face of insurmountable costs, Bautista said the effort "had become a law of diminishing returns."

In PNP's case, Purisima said that criminals "have refused to diminish, and just continued to return."


Half of the audience left the press conference to protest the line.

Asked what would become of the 100 thousand-strong police force if it were to be disbanded, Purisima said he would recommend to the president that it be reorganized into an anti-jaywalking task force.

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