Best Posts in Thread: another scam

The word Arrest here may not mean what it means elsewhere.
The police will handcuff someone and take them to the station and call this "custodial interrogation" but it's Not Arrest.
Authorities here pretty much do what they want. :( :(

 

2 Foreign National Tourists Arrested in Naga City for Not Possessing International Driver’s License – Something Stinks Here!
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Posted By: Timothy Walker January 27, 2016


2 Foreign National Tourists Arrested in Naga City for Not Possessing International Driver’s License – Something Stinks Here! – www.philippineslifestyle.com

NAGA CITY, Philippines – Naga City police have reported that two motorcycle-riding foreign nationals were arrested at Comelec checkpoints for driving without international driver’s license.

The report smells a bit fishy from a tourist stand point as Naga City Police Office chief Senior Insp. Ireneo Andalis said they have been apprehending foreign tourist over the past several months after they rent motorcycles from Pili Motorcycle Operations.

Andalis said that the tourist rent the motorcycles for 5,000 pesos for a two week span and do not possess the proper driver’s licenses for such activity.

They are then caught at a checkpoint in town and no doubt corrupted and taken advantage of by the same said police.

In lieu of a recent bullet planting scam, this scam seems to resonate some of the same principals based on extorting money from the white skinned members who are in the country spending dollars.

PH law does not designate that a tourist must have an international driver’s license, so, the unknowing are being arrested and forced into what? – and once again the powers-to-be want to know why tourism in the Philippines is the lowest of any Asian country