@work with my team

With the increasing report of abuses involving women and children, our office can't help but be concerned on the management of how the police should handle cases like these. The initial action would be how to protect their rights be they are victims or offenders. As you see, these part of citizenry should not be treated like common criminals, no special treatment particularly the offenders, but just to retain and maintain their dignity and to keep their identity confidential while the case or trial is on going. So our office, mandated to have control and supervision over the police, laid out several policies that would guide the police officers on how to handle cases of women and of children in conflict with the law.

Those policies were set for implementation years ago, foremost among them is the establishment of Women's Desk in every police stations. The committee on Gender Awareness Development (GAD), has taken initiative to inspect these desks at police stations, to look into the facilities such as separate jails for women and children, the investigation room suitable for children, the training of policewomen manning the women's desk and several other concerns that would help the abuses suffered by women and children.

And so the personnel involved in GAD committee were divided into team and I was included in CAMANAVA team. CAMANAVA stands for Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela, these are places under the Northern Police District (NPD). First on our itinerary is the Malabon Police Station, we are seven (7) in our team including our driver. The following pictures will given you an idea of our police station and our work.

I am sorry that we could not show the interview with abused women and children because of its confidentiality. These pictures were taken at Caloocan Police Station.

We interviewed a lot of people in the police station, in particular the police women from the Caloocan Women's Desk. It's a long tedious work but it's worth it. So after, we went our way to celebrate one of our team member's birthday. Liz's birthday and our area supervisor Dir. Josephmar Gil, treated us to a sumptuous lunch at Shakey's Pizza. Here are some photo's for that happy hour.