Senior Supt. Harris Fama,acting director of the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office, has confirmed the presence of vigilante groups in Negros Oriental, who are obviously ready to help the law enforcers in the campaign against illegal drugs. Surrender or else these vigilante groups could take you out, was Fama's warning message to the "drug pushers and users" in an interview with the media Thursday. Fama, however, made it clear the PNP will not allow vigilante killings to take place although he admitted the police may not be able to prevent this from happening. He called on “drug pushers and users” to instead voluntarily surrender to the police in response to Oplan TokHang (“toktok” for knock and “hangyo” for request in the Cebuano dialect) and Project Double Barrel campaigns. A report from the Amigo Cops Negros Oriental PNP Text Blast Project showed that 2,456 “drug users and pushers” have voluntary surrendered to various police stations in the province, from July 1-7, 2016. These include 475 surrenderees at the Guihulngan City Police Station, Sibulan PS – 467, Tanjay CPS – 241, San Jose PS – 165, Bais CPS – 154, Dauin PS - 146, Amlan PS – 145, Bayawan CPS – 129, Canlaon City PS – 6, Vallehermoso PS – 60, La Libertad PS – 23, Jimalalud PS – 3, Tayasan PS – 65, Ayungon PS – 32, Bindoy – 39, Manjuyod PS – 19, Mabinay PS – 39, Pamplona PS – 16, Dumaguete CPS - 47, Valencia PS – 8, Bacong PS – 7, Zamboanguita PS – 59, Siaton PS – 13, Sta Catalina PS – 42, and Basay PS - 56. DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental
Surrender or else these vigilante groups could take you out, was Fama's warning message to the "drug pushers and users" in an interview with the media Thursday. I don't understand how this works. Let's try to apply this logic to other situations here. Surrender to the restaurant or the staff may take your order and actually get it right. Surrender to the Internet provider or they might show up on time and fix your problem. Nah, **** it. Just give them cell phones and we won't have anything to worry about.
What about the people unknowingly and wrongly accused of dealing or using by a person that has an unrelated problem with them? How will they know they should turn themselves in so they can have a trail to determine their innocence? Seems there might be a new, easy and risk free way to get rid of annoying neighbors or business competitors.
That trick already existed. This seems to be further encouragement on the drug side. I don't see how there could be any basis to this. But I guess it's a response to the slow justice system.
