That Our Police Force Shape Up - Wish #2 for the Philippines

2010 has been a disastrous year, in terms of PR, for our police force.  First came the disastrous handling of the HK tourists hostage taking, an event caught on TV and broadcast all over the world!  The whole world came to see how inept our police force is, especially that the event happened in Manila, our country's capital. 

Hostage takings are very delicate and dangerous events yet the way our police handled it was so clumsy that it led to so many unnecessary tragic deaths.  Then just two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ordered the release of Hubert Webb et al for the murders of the Vizconde family, for lack of evidence, fifteen years after the celebrated trial.  To me, another case of police bungling the investigation of the case, and the handling of the evidence, crucial to the prosecution of the victims' killers!  How can our police investigators be that dumb?  I watch SOCO every week and I am always impressed at the way local police solve the cases, but I don't understand why when it's a high profile case, everything falls down like a house of cards! I am sure there are many excellent policemen out there - so I wish that in 2010, that they take the lead and show the world, our police force is not that inutile!