I guess I’ve seen too much of these Hollywood movies as I always perceived the SWAT team of any country can swiftly turn off any probable security threats, dangerous or violent situations. I was dead wrong, as the Philippines’ SWAT team was so amateur in their handling of the hostage siege leading to the death of 8 Hong Kong tourists.
Remember "Bad Boys" the movie, where detectives Will smith and Martin Lawrence evaded so swiftly into the hideout of the drug kingpin to rescue the hostage? Very impressive isn’t it? But it will never happen in reality especially if the police themselves are so corrupted. You think they will risk their lives to save yours? Come on, think it over again. To many of us, our impression of the blue shirt is that when they were wearing white shirts waving you to slow down, and stop you at a road side asking you whether you know you are committing traffic offences and asking you whether you need any special help.
Even the Philippines Police admitted their assault team was inadequately trained, armed and led. What the fuck, you don’t say this after 8 foreign tourists were killed, after one of your sacked cop turned amok with an M-16 and after your top cops acted so lackadaisically. You should have said this before ANYTHING HAPPEN, before it was too late. I guess the terrorists in Philippines’ are better trained and equipped than their Police as their best of the best didn’t even know how to break through the windows of hostage bus or the sniper can’t even finish off the gunman when there were ample opportunities. For the past many years, too many incidents of Chinese businessmen being kidnapped and some hostages were brutally killed, and it was said that some cases had the involvement of corrupted Police.
As we are mourning for the unfortunate people who were killed by an amok cop in the capital city of Philippines, we too have to bear in mind that if our cops are corrupted, the whole nation will also be in serious threat, like a time bomb awaiting to explode.
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