The best time for purging

The order by National Capital Region Police chief Oscar Albayalde to relieve the entire Caloocan City police force of duty and undergo retraining on the rule of law echoes the desperate call of the times to rid the nation’s police of the corrupt and the wicked.

Albayalde’s order on Friday rang out at the height of people’s outrage over the spate of killings of teenaged boys in the city in recent weeks, all of which are blamed on the city’s police unit. The last body was found in a creek in Nueva Ecija, around 170 kilometers north of Caloocan earlier this month.