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Sunday, November 28, 2004
Police form task force against cyberporn
By Dante M. Fabian
ANGELES CITY -- The Angeles City Police Office (Acpo) has created a task force to launch surveillance and raids on computer centers and other establishments that exploit persons into engaging online pornography.
Chief Insp. Efren Y. Miranda, Acpo Station 4 chief, said the surveillance group called the Cybersex Task Force was organized recently by Sr. Supt. Jimmy F. Restua, Acpo director.
Miranda said Restua has called on all police chiefs in the city to actively pursue the campaign being waged by Mayor Carmelo "Tarzan" Lazatin to transform the city into a center for wholesome and decent entertainment.
He said that the creation of the task force signals Restua's determined efforts in waging the war against online prostitution, exploitation and trafficking of women and children.
Police raided earlier this month an Internet café-cum-sex dens and arrested 17 so-called "cybermodels", a computer technician, operator and another employee.
They were arrested for alleged "cybersex" activities.
Miranda said the newly created Task Force Cybersex will be at the forefront of the police effort in curbing the illicit pornographic activities being propagated by unscrupulous capitalists through the internet.
According to Miranda, the online porno operators are using women, sometimes even underage girls, to make huge profits from flashing their naked or sensitive parts of their bodies to viewers in the country and in foreign countries with the use of the internet.
He added that Restua has designated newly-promoted Sr. Insp. Luisito M. Tan, Station 4 police community relations officer, as the task force leader.
Miranda said Tan's mission is to conduct search and surveillance operations against all computer Internet-equipped firms that employ women and offer sex shows.
During an interview, Restua said anyone found conducting illicit or pornographic activities will be arrested and charged criminally for violation of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Republic Act 9208 known as the Anti Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, and the Special Law for the Protection of Women and Children enacted under Republic Act 7610.
Restua earlier disputed reports describing Angeles City as "cybersex city."
Restua said Internet cafes engaging in cybersex is one of the most profitable illegal businesses today, saying a woman can earn as much as P4,000 in a week through it.
He said the local police are closely monitoring other Internet shops that could be used as cybersex dens and assured the public that they are not tolerating this kind of illegal business.
(November 28, 2004 issue)
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