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                    [ArticleID] => 1338837
                    [Title] => Streetkid
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UNLOCKED CAR. Time and again car owners have been advised by the police to always lock their cars, running or parked. One car owner said he forgot to lock his car when he parked it in the vicinity of the waterfront (not the hotel) area.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135969 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/opinion/20140625/eartoon.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305954 [Title] => Joke only [Summary] => Anthony Gara, the hapless resident of Zamboanga del Norte who was mistaken by the police for Abu Sayyaf commander Radulan Sahiron, should go ahead and file a complaint against his captors.

If someone does not start teaching cops a lesson in effective law enforcement, we will never see the end of these wrongful arrests. They can be hilarious, as in the case of the wrong Sahiron, as long as you’re not the one who gets manhandled by members of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305779 [Title] => If our police can’t tell the difference between the left and the right – God help us! [Summary] => No matter how their propaganda machine desperately grinds, the Philippine National Police cannot minimize the terrible mistake they made – embarrassing themselves and the over-eager La Presidenta – in trumpeting the arrest of the wrong "Radulan Sahiron", alias Abu Sayyaf Commander Putol. The guy the PNP seized in Zamboanga Sibugay was not Putol, but an unfortunate fellow named Antonio Gara.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305828 [Title] => Abu Sayyaf leader look-alike to file raps vs police [Summary] => One-armed Anthony Gara, who on Saturday afternoon was mistaken for Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron by government agents, threatened yesterday to sue his supposed "captors."

On the other hand, the Philippine National Police (PNP) wants to move on and credit the blunder to experience.

"It’s over. Let’s try to put that incident behind us. We have already apologized," PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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UNLOCKED CAR. Time and again car owners have been advised by the police to always lock their cars, running or parked. One car owner said he forgot to lock his car when he parked it in the vicinity of the waterfront (not the hotel) area.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135969 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/opinion/20140625/eartoon.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305954 [Title] => Joke only [Summary] => Anthony Gara, the hapless resident of Zamboanga del Norte who was mistaken by the police for Abu Sayyaf commander Radulan Sahiron, should go ahead and file a complaint against his captors.

If someone does not start teaching cops a lesson in effective law enforcement, we will never see the end of these wrongful arrests. They can be hilarious, as in the case of the wrong Sahiron, as long as you’re not the one who gets manhandled by members of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305779 [Title] => If our police can’t tell the difference between the left and the right – God help us! [Summary] => No matter how their propaganda machine desperately grinds, the Philippine National Police cannot minimize the terrible mistake they made – embarrassing themselves and the over-eager La Presidenta – in trumpeting the arrest of the wrong "Radulan Sahiron", alias Abu Sayyaf Commander Putol. The guy the PNP seized in Zamboanga Sibugay was not Putol, but an unfortunate fellow named Antonio Gara.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305828 [Title] => Abu Sayyaf leader look-alike to file raps vs police [Summary] => One-armed Anthony Gara, who on Saturday afternoon was mistaken for Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron by government agents, threatened yesterday to sue his supposed "captors."

On the other hand, the Philippine National Police (PNP) wants to move on and credit the blunder to experience.

"It’s over. Let’s try to put that incident behind us. We have already apologized," PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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