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Ping Lacson Blasts ‘Scalawags in Uniform’ in Las Piñas ‘Armed Robbery,’ Pushes Intensified Internal Cleansing in PNP

Former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief and 2025 senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson on Saturday blasted the 31 police officers who were involved in a raid that led to the theft of some P75 million in cash and valuables earlier this week.

Lacson, who reformed the PNP when he headed it from 1999 to 2001, said the raid was more of an armed robbery than a police operation – and the police officers involved as scalawags.

He pushed for an intensified internal cleansing in the PNP so incidents like this will not happen again.

“Indisputably, it was not a police operation but an armed robbery. To describe these cops as police scalawags would be an understatement,” he said in a post on X.

Related: Ping Lacson, Binanatan ang mga ‘Scalawags in Uniform’ sa Las Piñas ‘Armed Robbery,’ Iginiit ang Internal Cleansing sa PNP

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Ping Lacson’s Reform of PNP Cited by President

VICTORIAS CITY, Negros Occidental – Former Senator and Philippine National Police chief Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson was cited by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday evening for his role in reforming the PNP.

Mr. Marcos, who spoke at the rally of the Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate here, said it was during Lacson’s time as PNP chief that the PNP earned its highest approval ratings.

“During Chief PNP Lacson’s time, the PNP earned its highest approval ratings because of his actions. He cleaned and organized the police force so we can all sleep soundly at night,” he said in Filipino.

Related: Pagreporma ni Ping Lacson sa PNP, Pinahanga ang Pangulo

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Lacson assails cash ‘rewards’ system in drug war [BusinessMirror]

From BusinessMirror: Former Sen. Ping Lacson offered “unsolicited advice, as it may be,” to strengthen and make independent the PNP’s IAS, which he said, “as of now” is not functioning as well as it should owing to inherent limitations in its structure, mandate and funding.

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On the Sacking of 9 PNP-SAF Personnel

P/Gen Marbil means business. The PNP should include a thorough record check and background investigation on a group of Chinese nationals staying in the house rented by a certain Ah Long being secured by the moonlighting Zamboanga-based SAF personnel.

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A Grim Lesson for Rogues in Uniform [People’s Journal]

From Alfred Dalizon’s column in People’s Journal: I fully agree with former Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson when he declared that the conviction of a former policeman for the brutal killing of two teenagers in 2017 along with the resulting law transferring the training of police recruits to the Philippine National Police should help spell the end for “drug-related” torture and murder – and other abuses involving rogues in uniform.

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