MORE than 10,000 policemen are needed by the government but Acting Interior Secretary Catalino Cuy this week told the country’s councilors that the Philippine National Police (PNP) “cannot go beyond” that number, or “training facilities will be too burdened.”

Putting in her two cents’ worth, Vivian Suansing, director of the Interior department’s Bureau of Local Government Supervision, on Monday said “violent extremism” is a reason for the massive recruitment of policemen, referring to terrorism.

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