Groups To Monitor Foreigners In Towns

[MikeB]

"Saturday, June 28, 2014

POLICE will create groups of foreign nationals in towns frequented by them as part of efforts to monitor foreigners while they are in Cebu. Supt. Rodolfo Albotra of Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) said the group will be called Foreign National Keeper Network (FNKN), where a representative will keep a list of and track other aliens who are either visiting or residing in Cebu. “We want to establish good communication with them. This will also enable us to address their concerns easily,” he said yesterday. Albotra, head of CPPO’s Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) and Provincial Investigation and Detective Management Branch (PIDMB), said the program came from Camp Crame.

Communication open

The plan stemmed after last year’s disasters, like in November when super typhoon Yolanda hit Cebu, when foreigners had a hard time contacting their embassies immediately. Albotra said they have already established FNKN in Moalboal, a popular tourist attraction and where many foreigners are residing. “They are grateful to have this program,” he said. Police are planning to setup an FNKN in Bantayan, another tourist spot known for its white sand beaches. They will start by conducting a recruitment seminar. Albtora said CPPO Director Noel Gillamac has directed all police station chiefs in Cebu Province to approach foreigners living in their respective areas and inform them about FNKN. “They will become members as long as they can provide requirements that would show they are legal aliens,” he said. Albotra added that aside from being able to establish good relationship with foreigners, the FNKNs would allow police to check the background of these persons."

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2014/06/28/groups-monitor-foreigners-towns-350695

[JJReyes]

Sounds like they are assigning "minders" to all foreigners similar to the North Korea system. I can't figure out the underlining reason except maybe to ask foreigners to pay for the service.

[robert k]

Considering how much help you could expect in an emergency from the US Embassy, I think I will pass. It also sounds like an informers network.

[MikeB]

I think the last sentence in the article makes the purpose pretty clear. BTW, the above story was positioned right next to this one - http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2014/06/28/shame-campaign-go-350694 and this - http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2014/06/28/child-sex-trafficking-serious-problem-350693

 

 

Coincidence?

[Jollygoodfellow]

I think the last sentence in the article makes the purpose pretty clear. BTW, the above story was positioned right next to this one - http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2014/06/28/shame-campaign-go-350694 and this - http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2014/06/28/child-sex-trafficking-serious-problem-350693

 

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Coincidence?

 

 

First it makes me laugh if you read the caption of the pic where it points out that the Australian is second from right, gee we would never of guessed. 

 

 

Sitoy said he plans to post “No to Cybersex” and “No to Illegal Drugs” posters on houses whose occupants are suspected of engaging in cybersex operations.

 

Suspected and proven are two different things, how could this do any good? 

[i am bob]

Now, Tom, if the said the Australian was 4th from the left... Yup! There really are 3 people to his left, you just don't see much of them! :)

[robert k]

Maybe they should have identified him as the one not wearing the police uniform? :)

[Call me bubba]

Posted Today, 07:39 AM I think the last sentence in the article makes the purpose pretty clear.

 

BTW, the above story was positioned right next to this one - http://www.sunstar.c...paign-go-350694 and this - http://www.sunstar.c...-problem-350693

 

here are the 2 stories to make reading more convenient .

 

CHILD sex trafficking remains a serious problem in the Philippines because it occurs in private residences and facilitated by taxi drivers who know of clandestine locations, the US Department of State said.

In its 2014 US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released recently,

the State Department also noted that Filipino children who fall victims to this illegal activity are getting younger and that more boys are being recruited.

“The Philippines is a source country and, to a much lesser extent, a destination and transit country for men, women and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor.

A significant number of the 10 million men, women and children who migrate abroad for skilled and unskilled work are subsequently subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor,” the report stated.

The report was released a few days before Australian national Peter James Robinson was arrested in Cordova town last Tuesday for allegedly engaging in child pornography.

Nationalities

 

The TIP report said child sex tourists include citizens from Australia, New Zealand, and countries in northeast Asia, Europe, and North America.

On a three-tier scale, the TIP ranks the Philippines a Tier II for its anti-trafficking efforts, the same ranking it got for the past four years.

The Philippine Government, the report says, “does not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.”

It also said that efforts to address the problem are undermined by corruption.

 

Despite this, the State Department lauded the Philippine government for making significant efforts to comply with these standards, which include prohibiting severe forms of human trafficking and punishing these acts.

Given these findings, the International Justice Mission (IJM) said it is important for the government to step up efforts to make sure that traffickers are held criminally liable and prosecuted.

“Only when laws are strictly enforced and the justice system delivers those who are liable can we prevent and eradicate forced labor and the sex trafficking of men, women and children,” said IJM Manila Field Office Director Sam Inocencio.

 

Recommendations

 

Concurring with the report’s recommendation, Inocencio said the government should put in more people—from law enforcement to prosecution—to focus on the problem and ensure more convictions. In 2013, 31 sex traffickers were convicted.

Inocencio also said that as recommended in the report, the government should provide adequate assistance to the victims and make these available through temporary shelters.

 

“These should offer victims a secure environment where they can recover after a rescue operation, and must have a specific space to shelter males who also require specialized care,” he said.

The TIP Report is a diplomatic tool in global anti-trafficking efforts, encouraging countries to address the problem or else, they would jeopardize US foreign aid.

Meanwhile, Cordova policemen are now identifying the adults shown in photos stored in Robinson’s USB.

 

There is no official confirmation yet but it is believed that the adults are the parents of the 15 minors Robinson had recruited for his activities.

 

Parents who sell their children for sex may be held criminally liable.

 

But Dr. Rene Obra, head of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center’s Center for Behavioral Sciences, said in a radio report that these parents may be victims of abuse themselves in the past.

Obra, a psychiatrist, also said the need for money is another reason these parents sell their children to sex preys.

Mothers who work for nightclubs, he said, may also think that it is fine to involve their children in prostitution or pornography because they are doing it themselves.

 

 

 

A CAPITOL official will push through with his “shame campaign” against those involved in child pornography in Cordova, days after an Australian national was arrested for allegedly engaging in the illegal activity.

This, as officials confirmed that aside from Cordova, other towns had been placed under surveillance for being cybersex hosts.

Provincial Board Member Arleigh Sitoy said there are other resorts that have been used as venues for these illegal activities.

Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale, in a separate interview, confirmed this but said that surveillance work was aborted because the subjects learned that they were being monitored.

 

Magpale said that in two instances, two foreigners who were being monitored had the same pattern: teenagers, some even still in their school uniform,

are seen frequenting the houses where the offenders were staying.

 

In both instances, the surveillance had to be aborted because the foreigners moved to another area after finding out that their activities were being monitored.

Magpale, co-chairperson of the Provincial Women’s Commission, said Peter James Robinson, the Australian arrested in Cordova town, was the subject of an earlier surveillance.

 

With Robinson’s arrest, Sitoy, whose hails from Cordova, said he will push through with the shame campaign he was planning and implement livelihood and therapeutic interventions in communities where cybersex operation is reported.

 

Sitoy said he plans to post “No to Cybersex” and “No to Illegal Drugs” posters on houses whose occupants are suspected of engaging in cybersex operations.

“(The posters are a) negative, subtle attempt to ridicule those engaged in cybersex and drugs,” Sitoy said, while admitting that it is hard to stop the activity considering how lucrative it is.

 

Sitoy said a purok system will be organized to watch and observe the occupants of house where the poster was posted, and give feedback.

As for the other interventions, Sitoy allocated 10 sewing machines which may be used by those who wish to veer away from cybersex. Barangay officials and health workers will also be involved to assist the suspected targets

[i am bob]

So if you don't want to be confused with a child sex tourist, you best be a citizen of Antarctica... :)

[Jack Peterson]

Parents who sell their children for sex maybe criminally liable

 

 

 may be held criminally liable.  just what , do these people have between their Ears.

Surely it should read, WILL BE!

 

 

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