PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) chief Oscar Albayalde said on Monday, September, that he saw no need for a loyalty check within the police ranks amid the uproar created by the revocation of the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
Albayalde was confident that all PNP personnel remain non-partisan and apolitical.
“I can assure you and the public that there is no need for loyalty check in our ranks in the PNP. Wala kaming rason pag magkaroon pa ng loyalty check,” he said.
“Our loyalty to the Constitution is always strong and our loyalty to the Filipino people is always strong. Hindi magbabago yan at wala kaming information whatsoever na kahit ano man na impluwensya dito sa nangyayari sa Senate,” he added.
(That will not change and we do not have information that our men are being influenced by what is happening in the Senate.)
President Rodrigo Duterte, through Presidential Proclamation 572, declared the amnesty granted to Trillanes as void and ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and PNP to arrest the senator.
The President, however, has said he will wait for the courts to issue an arrest warrant against Trillanes.
Earlier, AFP chief of Staff Carlito Galvez Jr. reminded AFP men and women to stay non-partisan. He belied insinuations of divisiveness or rumblings in their ranks. (SunStar Philippines)