Sex Illegal for you Okay for Cops

Next they'll outlaw eating.

>Monday, January 30, 2006
>Cops defend ?undercover sex? as legit tactic
>
>HAVING sex with girls working in strip clubs and prostitution dens
>strengthens a case against them, police officials said in a random
>interview yesterday.
>
>Unless there?s a court ruling against it, this strategy will continue to
>be used by the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), Supt. Pablo Labra II, chief
>of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau (CIIB), said.
>
>?How can we prove in court if we don?t have personal knowledge that
>prostitution is being practiced? When there is a ruling from the court
>making this strategy unlawful, that?s the time we will stop,? Labra said.
>
>Like Labra, Vice Control Section Chief George Ylanan said he doesn?t see
>any violation of the law in the practice.
>
>?My understanding of the law tells me there?s nothing wrong with it,? he
>said. In fact, the law requires that habitual practice is established for
>a charge of prostitution to stick, he added.
>
>An official of a police national support unit that also uses the strategy
>agrees with Labra and Ylanan.
>
>The official, who spoke on condition that he shouldn?t be named, said the
>strategy is vital in the ?case build-up? for the crime of prostitution
>
>Exploitative
>
>The official said a meeting has been scheduled today to discuss lawyer
>Gloria Dalawampu?s statement and other approaches in going against
>prostitution.
>
>Dalawampu earlier said having sex with a prostituted woman is already a
>form of exploitation and a violation of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons
>Act, or Republic Act (RA) 9208.
>
>While the law targets the club owners and managers and treats the women as
>?exploited victims,? Section 11 of RA 9208 provides that ?any person who
>buys or engages the services of trafficked persons for prostitution? shall
>be penalized with six months of community services and fined P50,000.
>
>Second or subsequent offenses will mean a year in jail for the offender
>and a P100,000 fine.
>
>Not just sex
>
>Dalawampu said paying the bar fine is enough proof of trafficking and
>police need not do undercover work and have sex with the girl or have
>photos of the sex act taken.
>
>While Labra agrees the bar fine could be used in the case, the sex act is
>still important in building and strengthening it.
>
>?It?s not for the sake of having sex, but it is part of the mode of
>operation to strengthen the case,? Labra said.
>
>Ylanan, for his part, said he will continue employing this strategy until
>the Police Regional Office 7 or Cebu City Police Director Melvin Gayotin
>tells him to stop.
>
>Labra said he?d suggest to Gayotin to meet with members of the Integrated
>Bar of the Philippines-Cebu City Chapter to discuss the matter. (JST)



















































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