DRUG CAMPAIGN. File photo shows Cebu City Police Office Director Col. Gemma Vinluan emphasizing a point in a previous talk with Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak at the Cebu City Sports Center. Vinluan on Tuesday (Oct. 15, 2019) lambasted Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison for commenting that the government's campaign against illegal drugs is bogus. (File photo by PNA-Cebu)
CEBU CITY – The top police official here on Tuesday said Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) founder Jose Maria Sison has no right to comment against the government’s fight against illegal drugs as he has not done anything good to help the Filipinos.
Col. Gemma Vinluan, chief of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), became emotional in defending the Philippine National Police (PNP) over Sison’s remarks in a social media post that President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs is bogus.
“Huwag nga siyang makialam sa anti-illegal drugs, hindi nga siya nag-ooperate eh. Paano niya nasabing bogus? (He should not meddle in the anti-illegal drugs as he is not joining operations. How could he say that it’s bogus?)” Vinluan said in a radio interview.
She asked Sison to name his source of reports regarding the Duterte administration's campaign against drugs and stressed that policemen are “sacrificing their lives and that they are maximizing the resources to combat illegal drugs”.
“Alam nyo, kayong mga taong walang ginagawang maganda para sa gobyerno… wala nga kayong hinagawa kun hindi maninira. Wala kayong effort na tumulong sa gobyerno, ang alam nyo lang sirain ang pamumuno ng ating president (You know, you people who have not done anything good to the government… you people who have not done anything except to malign. You don’t even have efforts to help the government, what you know about is to destroy the leadership of our president),” Vinluan pointed out.
The chief of the CCPO lambasted Sison’s continuing recruitment targeting the youth, some of whom were killed while fighting against government forces, all because of the misplaced teachings of the CPP-NPA.
Vinluan was reacting to Sison’s Facebook post in Filipino, which undermined President Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs and questioned its objective.
Meanwhile, Vinluan assured Cebuanos that the local police here remain adherent to PATROL PLAN 2030, which serves as their guide post in fulfilling their mission, regardless of who sits as the chief of the PNP.
Under this plan, members of the PNP have focus crimes and are mandated to launch major operations against illegal drugs, most wanted persons, unregistered firearms, and illegal gambling.
Vinluan said regardless of who is the chief of the PNP, police units operate based on the long-term plan.
The CCPO chief’s comment came after PNP chief, Gen. Oscar Albayalde, on Monday stepped down from his post amid a Senate inquiry delving into allegations on cops recycling seized drugs. (PNA)
