By Mortz C. Ortigoza
A chief of police (COP) of a large town reminisced the
years when a COP could get P200, 000 to P400, 000 a month protection monies
from the illegal number games’ jueteng lord.
“Maliit ang bigayan ngayon ng Peryahan ng Bayan sa
amin, kuya,” he told me when I asked him how the number game played
like jueteng PnB shares the sales with the COP.
Jueteng was illegal where most of the proceeds went to
the pockets of the gambling lords, police brass, and politicians while Peryahan
ng Bayan (PnB) is legal under the Duterte Administration where a bulk of its
revenues go to the coffer of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO)
to help the destitute.
Officers and men of the Philippine National Police. Photo Credit: Official Gazette. |
A high official, who asked for anonymity, of the PCSO
franchised Small Town Lottery (STL) who is based in Southern Luzon told this
writer that chiefs of police felt sorry now because they get only a pittance
monthly from the share of the PnB’s daily revenues.
“It’s only the (police) provincial and regional police
directors who earned big monthly from PnB while the chiefs earned peanuts”.
He said if the collection of bet monies a day in a big
city is P500, 000, the COP gets .5% (or point five percent) or
P2,500 a day or P75, 000 a month.
He explained this monthly amount is not hefty because the
COP has to feed the daily meals of his policemen that numbered into hundreds.
“Noong panahon ng jueteng magkano ang kita ng chief of
police sa siyudad na ito?” I asked him.
He said between P400, 000 to P450, 000 monthly.
A COP who was assigned in a coastal city told me years
ago that when some generals at Camp Crame will call or text him for several
kilos of alimango (mud or mangrove crabs) and bangus, the former would just
tell the generals that he would take the tab of the aquatic products packaged
with ice in a Styrofoam.
“Malakas kasi ang jueteng noon unlike sa mga hepe
ngayon na barya barya na lang ang natatangap sa palaro,” the officer
told me.
The STL brass said that unlike with the provincial and
regional directors, a PD (provincial director) earns 1% of the daily gross of
PnB thus he could snare up to P4.5 million a month.
“Mas malaki pa ang kita ng PD ngayon kaysa mga PD
noong panahon ni President Noynoy Aquino,” I commented.
He nodded his head.
During the Aquino Administration, a police provincial
director in a province in Northern Luzon can only earn up to P1.5 million a
month.
With the information I got with the STL executive, if a
PD could earn P4.5 Million monthly the Regional Director could earn, I
surmised, more or less P10 million a month because he oversees several
provinces.
“Kawawa ang mga hepe kasi ang PD maliit lang naman ang
maibibigay sa kanila. Kung sa sampung pesos ang kita niya kada buwan, mga peso
or dos lang ang maiaambag niya sa kanila,” he cited.
(You can read my selected columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com and articles at Pangasinan News Aro. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com)
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