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FOLLOWING “criticism,” the Philippine National
Police (PNP) on Monday urged controversial actress Ruffa Gutierrez
to hire her own security escorts from private security agencies.
The PNP chief, Director General
Oscar Calderon, said that the three-man police team that they have
provided for the actress as security escorts would be pulled-out
after one month.
“That’s why we encourage her
and her family to secure their own security escorts from private
security agencies.” Calderon said during a chance interview at
Camp Crame.
The PNP chief said that the
actress, whose much publicize split with her Turkish husband, Ylmaz
Bektas, can afford enough to get her own security escorts on a
permanent basis.
“I think she can hire their own
[security escorts] and they can afford the services of private
security agencies . . . we also need our men in the field,”
Calderon said.
But, the PNP chief maintained
that there was nothing wrong on the side of the authorities to
provide the actress and her family temporary police protection.
“There was really a threat . .
. I received a personal letter from Ruffa and she was asking that
she be given police protection and I endorse the letter to the PSPO,”
Calderon said.
The PSPO or Police Security
Protection Office (PSPO) is the PNP unit that was tasked to provide
security escorts to VIP’s, government officials and private
individuals who are under “threat.”
The PNP chief said the PSPO is
currently validating the alleged threat that the actress has started
receiving following her controversial split from her husband last
month.
“The police escorts are
temporary only pending verification and threat assessments of the
PSPO. They would be pulled out after a month,” said Calderon.
The PNP last week had assigned
three policemen as security escorts of the actress and her two
children a month after evaluating the alleged threats she received
from her estranged husband.
 --Anthony
Vargas
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