Dumaguete has long Approved Free
Legal Assistance but NO Funds
A former city legal officer of Dumaguete City has disclosed that the city government has approved an ordinance providing for a free legal assistance to harassed policemen and those in need of legal assistance in the city of Dumaguete.
Attorney Mikhail Lee Maxino, former city legal officer under the term of ex-mayor Atty. Felipe Remollo, said that the city government has created a city legal assistance office which taps the faculty and law students of different law schools in Dumaguete.
The only problem is that the city government has not funded the ordinance and therefore it is not operational.
This came close to the heels of a NAPOLCOM directive arranging with the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, a lawyers’ organization, to conduct and extend legal assistance to harassed policemen.
By harassed means, policemen are slapped with charges for implementing the laws.
The IBP has allocated funds from the national office to extend legal assistance to harassed police officers who are charged with crimes that are only intended to deter the progress of the laws’ implementation.
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Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:29 pm