ON TARGET
By Ramon Tulfo
Philippine Daily Inquirer 10:48 pm | Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Former Maguindanao election supervisor Lintang Bedol, who allegedly manipulated the election results in that province in 2004 and 2007, was wearing a bullet-proof vest when he met with Comelec Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr.
Bedol was apparently scared of being shot by an assassin hired by people he had implicated in the election rigging.
If an assassin shot Bedol, his bullet-proof vest would not have protected him if it came from the Philippine National Police (PNP).
The PNP bought substandard bullet vests during the time of police Director General Jess Verzosa.
Those bullet vests are useless since they can be penetrated by any bullet.
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Chief Superintendent Leocadio Santiago, former chief of the elite PNP Special Action Force, had complained about the bullet vests which were issued to his men.
But Santiago’s complaint was ignored by Verzosa.
So Santiago, who was concerned about the safety and welfare of his men at the SAF, went to then Commissioner Mar General of the National Police Commission (Napolcom).
General, on his own, conducted an investigation and found out that the bullet vests were made of—listen to this—foam instead of kevlar! --
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