Cebu - Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) Superintendent Rodolfo Albotra, head of the Provincial Intelligence Branch CPPO (PIB) and Provincial Investigation and Detective Management Branch (PIDMB) says there is formed a group which has the goal, the activities of foreigners Cebu visiting or Resident shall be monitored. The group is called the National Foreign Keeper Network (FNKN). According Albotra, comes a plan of Camp Crame, the headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Quezon City. In Moalboal a FNKN already been set up, another will follow in Bantayan. Albtora says, CPPO Director Noel Gillamac has all the chiefs of police in the province of Cebu warned to contact foreigners and to inform them about the FNKN. Foreigners can become members as long as they can prove that they are legal aliens, he adds. Albotra explained, apart from the possibility thereby create good relationships with foreigners, the police can by FNKN also check the background of foreigners. EPD 28/06/2014 - 5:45
This thing will turn out to be nothing more than a good ol' boy system. Those who are in will be in a place of power able to shaft over their enemies and pull favors for their friends. Although, I assume this will be a pretty dangerous position to volunteer for. Want to rat out a foreigner for buying/selling drugs? Well, ok, that's your call......but you know you just hurt the sales/supply of the local gang right? You'd be lucky if you lived to do that a second time. Want to rat out guys for paying girls for sex....the girls probably have a pimp....who is also probably in a gang. It goes on and on. If you sign up for this you are signing on to be a snitch and you will be unnecessarily creating enemies. Do you really think the police are going to offer you any sort of protection for being a good Samaritan/snitch? Will they authorize you to carry a gun and wear body armor? The only reason the police want foreigners to volunteer is because it will make their jobs a lot safer and it will allow them to sit on their rear ends even more than they already do. If foreigners would just go to the Philippines and act half way respectable, or at the very least keep their BS behind closed doors, something like this would never even be thought of. (But then again, maybe it wouldn't....personal responsibility and accepting one's own faults are not popular in this country. It always has to be someone else's fault.) Of course, the English in this article is so poor it is impossible to know what they are actually talking about. This could be recruiting for foreigner spies into a government agencies or it could just be a government ran support group for expats. I take it as a group created "to monitor the evil foreigners who are responsible for all the hardship in this country."
If this is organized as good as the english in this "strange" sentences in the above article, than I see only chaos...
I found this in a German Cebu info site. I assume they translated the official English version in to German ( what I read) and I had the computer retranslate in English. Here is a follow up from yesterday: Cebu - Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) Superintendent Rodolfo Albotra, head of the Provincial Intelligence Branch CPPO (PIB) and Provincial Investigation and Detective Management Branch (PIDMB) says there is formed a group which has the goal, the activities of foreigners Cebu visiting or Resident shall be monitored. The group is called the National Foreign Keeper Network (FNKN). According Albotra, comes a plan of Camp Crame, the headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Quezon City. In Moalboal a FNKN already been set up, another will follow in Bantayan. Albtora says, CPPO Director Noel Gillamac has all the chiefs of police in the province of Cebu warned to contact foreigners and to inform them about the FNKN. Foreigners can become members as long as they can prove that they are legal aliens, he adds. Albotra explained, apart from the possibility thereby create good relationships with foreigners, the police can by FNKN also check the background of foreigners. EPD 28/06/
Regardless of the country...still the 11 most scariest words a person can hear...." I am from the government and I here to help you". While expats come in all flavors, shapes, sizes, and ethics; and some may give the label "expat" a bad reputation, I don't see it as my responsiblity to monitor or report on the activities of anyone else. As my mama said "minding your own business is the best way to reduce your worries by 75%." As I retire and come to the Duma area, that is exactly what I intend to do... JMHO, there are enough agencies keeping tabs on the citizenry of the world. We don't need more. Private citizens who would participate in this type of organization/activity are looking for favors at the expense of others or think they can gain control in one way or another over others...not a good position to be in for a long and healthy life of retirement. Live and let live.
I know of a foreigner who I used to live close to a couple years ago. The foreigner's taste was in young girls from Negros Oriental High School (NO HS). He would pass out his number rarely near the school even to boys who would pass it to girls looking for a foreigner friend. The guy would use all sorts of ways to con girls to come to his house such as tutoring in English, just wanting to meet, its his birthday and no friends, he has a part-time job available and thought she could use the extra income after school to help her family, watching a movie, and so forth. The girls would come over suckered by him. He would then not allow them to leave and pressure them heavily for sex from conning, to money, to threats. Even rape in some cases as he knows most of these girls are so shy they won't ever tell a friend let alone their family. He had his own gated house he rented not far from NO HS. Word got already the neighborhood but few cared. He was ratted out a couple times including by other foreigners to the police. One even provided a rape victim who was 15 and numbers of other girls who all new him all to well. It was *investigated*. Rumor came down that the 15 year old girls family accepted 150k from the guy to drop charges, police never made any arrests. For at least a year after all that he was still there. No idea what happened to him now other then he's NOT in Dumaguete anymore. Most of the girls were 15-17 he was involved with as well. He often went by the name of Mike (please don't blame 1 Mike for another Mike's issue, a good friend of mine here is a Mike as well). I know about it as I lived half a block from him. I knew 2 of the girls who who had been to his place, one being a sister of a close friend at a time and the other a cousin of a gal I was trying to date. No one nearby really seemed to care what was going on but people knew and had suspicions. So can we really trust the police to do their job?
It would appear that the 15 year old victim and her family were not the only recipients from the bribe of disgrace , just mortifying to think with so many warning signs there was nothing done to prevent this person's despicable behaviour from continuing for as long as it did .
Now that the U.S. and local authorities tracked down Thomas, the wanted young boy hunter, things have a slight chance of getting better for the very young. I believe if it wasn't for the U.S. spearheading the search, he would probibly still be on the hunt. Let's hope the locals have had a wake up call.
Little bit of digging has revealed this latest "watch the foreigners" idea is not a new concept , follow the link below , and like ChMacQueen pointed out , useless concept if those responsible sit on their laurels doing nothing even it is presented on a platter . http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...hYDwDw&usg=AFQjCNHcSKOp9uDZRQEXsOoKdCmHV63Ryw
