Enhance PNP role in justice system

IT’S time the Philippine National Police be given a leeway in determining whether a person should be charged with a criminal offense or not.

This is particularly needed in cases involving car accidents. I see no reason why a motorist who injures or fatally hits a pedestrian should be automatically charged with physical injuries or homicide through reckless imprudence even if the pedestrian is at fault. For instance, many who got hit by cars on Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City, were jaywalkers who tried to outrun vehicles. The car drivers end up shouldering the hospital bills of the injured or the funeral services of the fatality if they don’t want to end up in jail or to undergo an expensive, protracted legal battle.