Gov hopes rogue cops sent to ARMM will reform for good

COTABATO CITY -- Regional Gov. Mujiv Hataman has expressed confidence the 60 police scalawags sent to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will perform well will be reformed. Hataman, who expressed strong opposition when news broke out that police scalawags from the National Capital Regional Police Office (NCRPO) will be sent to ARMM as punishment, has changed stance after PNP Director Gen. Ronald dela Rosa explained that the transfer was routinary in the PNP ranks. The regional governor earlier urged Dela Rosa not to make ARMM a dumping ground of corrupt police officers. My stance remains that ARMM is not a dumping ground for corrupt police officers but since it was an internal exchange program among PNP personnel, let's give them the benefit of the doubt...we will welcome them here hoping they will reform, Hataman told reporters during the launching of Masa Masid program of the government He admitted that there were also police scalawags from the ARMM who were sent to Visayas and Luzon. The transfer of scalawags to ARMM under the Duterte government created noise since it was the most publicized police decision. Of the more than 200 police reassigned to ARMM, only 60 obliged and traveled to the south. The rest opted to go on absence without official leave. The police officers from NCRPO will undergo retraining, reorientation and values formation so they will refrain from getting involved in illegal activities.