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Moral police?
WINNING WAY BY DATIN T.D. AMPIKAIPAKAN
HAS OUR society become so morally bankrupt that we need to be policed in everything that we do? If so, who do we appoint to police us? Are they fit to do so? Who, in turn, will police the police?
I checked some etiquette books to see what were the “accepted practices” that would work in a “growing but finding your way” multi-racial society. This is what I found:
Manners, morals and ethics are closely interrelated;
Teaching morality and ethics begins at childhood. It is then constantly reinforced in school, co... Read more
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06 March 2007
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Guatemalan president orders pu
GUATEMALA CITY: President Oscar Berger on Tuesday ordered the national police to clean out corrupt officers and upgrade training after six officers were accused of killing three Central American Parliament members.
Berger gave the Interior Ministry 15 days to come up with rules that would make it easier to fire policemen accused of crimes. Authorities have complained that judges often reinstate dismissed officers under existing laws.
Berger said he was acting because "members of the National Civil Police appear to have been involved in acts that affect the prestige of the institution."
Members of Guatemala's police, military and justice systems have been bought off by traffickers who use the country as a way station for Colombian drug shipments to the U.S.
The FBI last week sent several agents to help discover who ordered six police officers to murder three Salvadoran members of the Central American Parliament and their driver on Feb. 19.
Four police officers, including the head of the Guatemalan National Police's organized crime investigations unit, were accused of the killings after a satellite transponder in their unmarked squad car put them at the scene of the crime. But before they could testify, they were killed inside their jail cells.
Another officer is in custody and a sixth officer is being sought.
Interior Minister Carlos Vielman said officials want to toughen the requirements at the police academies and extend training there from 6 to 10 months. He said authorities will require a high school degree instead of just a middle school education for entry.
Guatemala and the United Nations also are working to create an International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, an independent office that would use foreign investigators to investigate organized crime and police agencies corrupted by criminal organizations.
But Guatemala's Congress has stalled in approving the U.S.-backed proposal.
On Tuesday, Congress asked the country's Constitutional Court to rule on the constitutionality of such a commission, arguing that it might conflict with Guatemala's justice system.
While the local congress has passed laws giving police greater powers to use undercover agents and phone taps, the Interior Ministry has yet to implement them.
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