WHEN QUIET SERVICE DESERVES TO BE HEARD: WHY GENERAL RICARDO DE LEON SHOULD BE AMONG THE SENATORIAL CHOICES IN 2028

*Dr. Rodolfo John Ortiz Teope, PhD, EdD, DM

Sometimes I wonder how many good leaders the Philippines has never discovered simply because nobody pointed a camera at them. Somewhere in this country, there may be a mayor quietly transforming a municipality, a governor honestly managing a province, a police officer reforming an institution, a general who has spent decades protecting the Republic, an academic whose ideas could improve government, or a career civil servant who understands public administration better than many politicians. They work. They serve. They accomplish things. But nobody knows their names.

 

Then somebody appears on television for twenty minutes, delivers a powerful statement, confronts someone during a congressional hearing, or becomes viral on social media. Suddenly, people begin shouting,

 “Senatoriable ’yan!” Another impressive appearance, and the person becomes “vice presidentiable.” One dramatic national moment later, the same personality is already being presented as “presidentiable.” And sometimes I ask myself: Ganito na lang ba talaga tayo pumipili ng magiging lider ng bayan?

 

Long before the 2028 elections arrive, familiar names will again dominate surveys, advertisements, interviews, motorcades, and social media. Some potential candidates will employ public relations practitioners, political strategists, influencers, content creators, and image consultants to transform ordinary activities into national headlines. Create the image. Find the issue. Produce the moment. Repeat the name. Build the narrative. Suddenly, a carefully manufactured political personality is presented to the nation as its next savior.

 

Meanwhile, somewhere beyond the bright lights of political publicity is a man who continues to work without demanding that the nation applaud him. His name is General Ricardo F. De Leon.

 

I am writing this not to formally endorse his candidacy. I do not know whether he intends to run for the Senate in 2028. This is not a campaign announcement, nor is it an attempt to speak on his behalf. I write simply to remind the Filipino people that among more than 112 million Filipinos, there is a General De Leon quietly serving the Republic. His name deserves to be included in any serious discussion of possible senatorial choices in 2028.

General De Leon is not a product of one viral video, one controversial hearing, or one dramatic television interview. His record was built over decades, away from the noise and performance of electoral politics. His career has crossed senior police service, public safety education, university administration, institutional leadership, and national intelligence. He rose through the Philippine National Police, served as officer in charge and acting president of the Mindanao State University System, headed the Philippine Public Safety College, served in the academic administration of Centro Escolar University, and later became Director General of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency. That is not twenty minutes of nationwide television exposure. That is a lifetime of institutional experience.

 

One of the strongest demonstrations of his leadership came when he was asked to assume responsibility for the Mindanao State University System in 2005. His appointment was not immediately welcomed. He entered MSU as a retired police general, a Christian, and an outsider to a university community with a unique history, culture, and identity. Students, faculty members, alumni, and other stakeholders expressed fears that the university would be militarized. Some questioned whether a former police official belonged in an academic institution.

General De Leon could have responded defensively. He could have imposed authority through rank, command, and institutional power. But leadership is not always about forcing people to obey. Sometimes it is about entering a suspicious community, listening to its people, understanding their fears, earning their confidence, and proving through action that one has come not to conquer but to serve.

 

He was given the difficult responsibility of helping address the university’s peace and order and security problems. MSU was not an ordinary assignment. It was a national institution situated in an environment where education, culture, religion, historical grievances, security, and the aspirations of Mindanao intersected. His task was not merely to guard a campus. It was to protect a university’s academic mission while helping restore stability and institutional confidence.

 

He did not transform MSU into a military camp. Instead, he demonstrated that discipline and consultation could coexist, that security and academic freedom need not be enemies, and that a Christian former police general could work with and earn the respect of a predominantly Muslim academic community.

 

The opposition he initially encountered gradually gave way to recognition of the difference he had made. Years later, retired General Ramon J. Farolan in his newspaper column wrote of De Leon’s service at MSU under the moving title, “The Passerby Who Made a Difference.”

 

That description is powerful. A passerby does not remain forever. He enters a place for a limited time, performs the responsibility entrusted to him, leaves the institution more stable than he found it, and moves on without claiming ownership of its achievements. General De Leon may have entered MSU as an outsider whose appointment was questioned, but he left behind the memory of a leader who helped restore stability, protected the institution, and earned the respect of people who had initially doubted him.

 

He did not need to belong to the community by birth to defend its welfare. He chose to belong through service.

 

That accomplishment reveals something deeper about his qualifications for the Senate. It demonstrates that he can enter a divided environment, manage resistance, understand cultural sensitivities, and transform suspicion into cooperation. These are precisely the abilities needed in a Senate often divided by ideology, political loyalty, personal interest, and competing regional concerns.

 

Could somebody with such a background serve meaningfully in the Senate? Certainly, his record deserves serious consideration. But ask ordinary Filipinos about him. Many may not even recognize his name. Why? Hindi maingay. Hindi palaging nagpapa interview. Hindi naghahanap ng camera. Hindi araw araw nasa social media.

 

He does not appear obsessed with advertising himself. He does not need a publicity stunt every day to prove his relevance. He seems to understand that public service is not a television program and that national security cannot be reduced to slogans, dance videos, or viral posts. While others employ public relations machinery to make themselves appear larger than their accomplishments, General De Leon has chosen the less glamorous path: to work silently and allow his record to speak for him.

 

Unfortunately, records do not always speak loudly enough in Philippine politics. Quiet competence has one terrible disadvantage. "It is quiet."

 

In our electoral system, even the most qualified person can remain invisible if nobody tells the public that he exists. A silent worker can easily be buried beneath the noise created by wealthy political organizations, famous family names, entertainment personalities, and candidates supported by armies of online propagandists. Twenty or thirty years of service can be overshadowed by twenty or thirty minutes of television exposure. That is why General De Leon deserves to be noticed.

 

His professional experience is not a collection of decorative credentials assembled for an election brochure. It represents decades spent understanding institutions, human behavior, organizational discipline, education, law enforcement, public safety, peacebuilding, and the difficult responsibility of protecting the Republic.

 

As I previously discussed in my article, “NICA DirectorGeneral Ricardo F. De Leon and the Evolution ofIntelligence,” his approach to intelligence may be understood as something broader than gathering secret information. It reflects an appreciation of intelligence as an instrument of prevention, institutional integrity, education, public safety, and nation building.

 

That depth of experience matters in the Senate. The Senate does not merely need people who know how to deliver speeches, manufacture quotable lines, or dominate a televised confrontation. It needs legislators who understand how government institutions actually function. It needs people capable of examining threats before they become national crises. It needs leaders who can contribute meaningfully to discussions involving national security, public safety, cybercrime, transnational crime, illegal drugs, corruption, disinformation, foreign interference, education, peace and order, institutional reform, Mindanao, and the West Philippine Sea.

 

On these matters, General De Leon would not enter the Senate as a beginner. His qualifications and institutional experience compare favorably with, and in several important fields may even exceed, those of some incumbent senators. This is not intended to insult anyone. It is simply an honest assessment of what he could bring to the institution.

 

If celebrities, political heirs, media personalities, and individuals with far less government experience may be considered qualified to seek a Senate seat, why should a seasoned leader in policing, education, public safety, peacebuilding, institutional administration, and intelligence not be given the same opportunity? Why should competence remain hidden merely because it refuses to advertise itself?

 

In Philippine politics, name recall is political capital. Familiarity can be converted into credibility, and credibility can eventually become votes. This does not automatically make famous personalities qualified or unqualified. It merely explains why highly competent but less visible Filipinos struggle to enter the public’s political imagination.

 

The same phenomenon appears whenever a lawyer delivers an impressive argument, a legislator creates a memorable confrontation, or a personality becomes the center of a dramatic national event. Social media explodes. Millions watch. Thousands share. Suddenly, “Senatoriable!”

 

But wait. What exactly did we measure? Eloquence? Courage? Charisma? Toughness? Television presence? One impressive performance? These qualities may matter, but they are not the same as governing.

 

For every brilliant lawyer appearing on television, there may be hundreds of equally brilliant lawyers whose only disadvantage is that nobody placed a camera before them. For every general who becomes famous because of one controversy, there may be other generals who have spent decades quietly building institutions and protecting the country.

 

General De Leon may not have the loudest voice, the most aggressive political machinery, or the most dramatic public image. But perhaps that is precisely why the country needs to look at him more closely. In a nation exhausted by political performance, a quiet and disciplined worker can offer a refreshing kind of leadership.

 

There are people who announce everything they intend to do. There are also people who simply do the work. There are politicians who spend enormous resources creating the image of competence. There are public servants whose years of work have already established it. There are those who seek power because they want to be seen. And there are those who deserve greater responsibility precisely because they continued serving even when few people were watching.

 

General Ricardo De Leon belongs to the second kind.

 

Of course, his qualifications should not exempt him from public scrutiny. Should he decide to enter politics, the people must examine his complete record, principles, policy positions, independence, and plans for the country. Every aspiring senator must face the same democratic examination. Recognition should never become blind admiration, just as criticism should never become automatic rejection. But Filipinos cannot evaluate a person they have never been allowed to notice.

 

Imagine someone who has spent decades serving government. No manufactured controversy. No theatrical drama. No publicity stunt. No army of influencers. No massive public relations machinery. Every morning, trabaho. Every evening, uwi. Year after year. Then another person becomes viral on Tuesday. By Friday, people are already talking about that person for the Senate.

 

There is something profoundly wrong with a political culture when being seen becomes more valuable than having served.

 

This creates a terrible incentive for aspiring politicians. Magpapansin ka. Create controversy. Find an enemy. Produce content. Become viral. Politicians become performers. Hearings become stages. Interviews become auditions. Social media becomes the theater. Elections become casting calls for the next Filipino political action hero.

 

But democracy is not an action movie. There is no two hour ending where the bida defeats all the kontrabida and suddenly corruption disappears, poverty ends, crime vanishes, and government begins functioning perfectly.

 

Real governance is often boring. Budgets are boring. Administration is boring. Policy implementation can be boring. Institution building takes years. But these supposedly boring responsibilities are precisely what make countries work. Sometimes, the person doing the most important work is the person least interested in being photographed while doing it.

 

That is why we need a different standard before 2028. Before calling anyone senatoriable, vice presidentiable, or presidentiable, we should ask what the person has actually accomplished, what institutions the person improved, what difficult problems were solved, and how that person responded when people resisted the leadership being offered. We should ask whether the person can unite communities divided by religion, culture, politics, and historical distrust. We should ask whether the person can build institutions instead of merely building followers, whether integrity can survive money, power, pressure, and temptation, and perhaps most importantly, whether the person can continue leading when the cameras are turned off.

 

On the basis of these questions, General De Leon deserves a place in the national conversation.

 

I am not asking the Filipino people to vote for him today. There is no ballot before us, and there may not even be a declared candidacy. I am asking only that we widen our field of vision. Beyond the political billboards, publicity teams, rehearsed interviews, paid online campaigns, and familiar surnames are Filipinos whose service deserves national attention.

 

General Ricardo F. De Leon is one of them.

 

He may be a quiet worker, but quietness must never be mistaken for weakness. He may not advertise himself, but genuine competence does not disappear merely because it is not constantly posted online. He may remain hidden from the political spotlight, but a hidden gem does not lose its value simply because many people have not yet discovered it.

 

At MSU, he entered as a questioned outsider and left as a passerby who made a difference. In public safety education, he helped prepare those entrusted with protecting the people. In intelligence, he continues to work in a field where success is often measured precisely by the crises the public never sees.

 

Among more than 112 million Filipinos, there is a General Ricardo De Leon silently working for the Republic. He deserves to be noticed. He deserves to be included among the possible senatorial choices for 2028.

 

And should he decide to accept the challenge, he deserves a fair chance to present himself to the Filipino people, not as another product of political publicity, but as a seasoned public servant whose life’s work may already speak more powerfully than any campaign advertisement ever could.

 

The Philippines does not need another political one hit wonder. It needs leaders whose competence was proven before they became famous, whose integrity survives after they acquire power, and whose accomplishments remain standing long after the cameras have been turned off.

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BEYOND THE STREETS: PMGEN WILSON ASUETA, CLICK, AND THE WAR AGAINST CYBERCRIME

If There Is a Foot Patrol, There Must Be a Cyber Patrol

*Dr. Rodolfo John Ortiz Teope, PhD, EdD, DM

Crime no longer needs a dark street, a deadly weapon, or a waiting getaway vehicle. Today, criminals can enter our homes without opening the door, empty our bank accounts without touching our wallets, and destroy our lives without ever showing their faces. 

The new crime scene is already in our hands. It is inside our mobile phones, computers, social media accounts, electronic wallets, online banking applications, dating platforms, and private messages.

Cybercrime is no longer merely one category of crime. Cyberspace has become the new operational environment of criminality.

Not every offense is committed entirely online. Rape, robbery, trafficking, and murder remain distinct crimes under the law. But almost every major form of criminal activity can now be planned, facilitated, financed, recorded, expanded, or concealed through the internet.

Illegal drugs, organized crime, sexual violence, extortion, human trafficking, theft, robbery, illegal recruitment, fraud, money laundering, and child exploitation can all have a cyber component.

This is the new reality that law enforcement must confront.

Robbery, snatching, akyat-bahay, and other traditional street crimes have not disappeared. But CCTV cameras, police visibility, and modern security systems have made many physical crimes more difficult to commit without being seen.

Yet while we continue watching our streets, criminals have discovered a bigger, richer, and more crowded hunting ground.

The internet has become their new street.

Dito, hindi na kailangang humawak ng baril ang isang magnanakaw. Hindi na niya kailangang mang-agaw ng bag, umakyat sa bahay, o tumakbo mula sa pinangyarihan ng krimen. Maaari siyang manatili sa isang maliit na kuwarto, magtago sa likod ng pekeng pangalan, at magnakaw mula sa daan-daang tao.

Isang pindot lamang, maaaring maubos ang bank account ng isang pamilya. Isang maling link lamang, maaaring mawala ang perang inilaan para sa matrikula ng isang anak. Isang mapanlinlang na investment offer lamang, maaaring maglaho ang ipong pinaghirapan ng isang OFW sa loob ng maraming taon.

When the victim realizes what has happened, the money is gone, the account has disappeared, and the person who once sounded so trustworthy has become nothing more than a blank profile on a screen.

This is the battlefield now being confronted by the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group under the leadership of Police Major General Wilson C. Asueta.

From September 4 to 10, 2026, the PNP ACG reported the arrest of 24 individuals and the rescue of four victims in operations conducted nationwide. Fifteen suspects were arrested by virtue of warrants, while nine were apprehended during entrapment operations.

The Group also implemented 20 cyberwarrants, consisting of 18 Warrants to Disclose Computer Data and two Warrants to Examine Computer Data. Its Digital Forensic Unit received four requests for forensic examination. Five inquest proceedings, 31 cases filed through regular filing, and three convictions were likewise recorded.

These are not ordinary numbers.

Behind every arrest is a difficult search for the person hiding behind a false identity. Behind every cyberwarrant is an investigator connecting fragments of electronic evidence before they disappear. Behind every rescued victim is a human being who may have suffered fear, exploitation, humiliation, or financial ruin.

What PMGEN Wilson Asueta and the PNP ACG are accomplishing deserves recognition from the Office of the President, Department of the Interior and Local Government, and Chief of the Philippine National Police.

But recognition must not end with commendations, photographs, or ceremonial handshakes. It must be translated into increased funding, modern technology, additional personnel, specialized training, and expanded operations.

Hindi maaaring napakalaki ng responsibilidad ng PNP ACG ngunit limitado ang kagamitan at bilang ng mga tauhan nito. Hindi maaaring inaasahan nating hahabulin nito ang mabilis, makabago, at pandaigdigang cybercriminal networks gamit ang teknolohiyang madaling mapag-iwanan.

PMGEN Asueta is not merely leading another specialized police unit. He is helping lead the PNP into the battlefield where much of tomorrow’s criminality will be fought.

This war is no longer only about hackers stealing passwords.

Organized crime is already operating on the internet. Criminal organizations use cyberspace to communicate, recruit members, locate victims, advertise illegal activities, receive payments, transfer proceeds, conceal identities, and coordinate operations across borders.

Illegal drugs can be advertised and arranged online. Human traffickers use social media to lure victims through false employment, travel, modeling, or romantic opportunities. Illegal recruiters hide behind fake websites and virtual offices. Money laundering passes through layers of bank accounts, electronic wallets, payment platforms, and cryptocurrency transactions.

Hindi na kailangan ng isang sindikato ng malaking opisina na maaaring salakayin ng mga awtoridad. Maaari itong gumamit ng dummy accounts, disposable numbers, pekeng business profiles, at encrypted communications upang itago ang tunay nitong operasyon.

Sexual predators may use social media and dating applications to identify, groom, deceive, threaten, and lure victims. Sexual assaults may be recorded, livestreamed, or used for blackmail. Intimate photographs can be weaponized to extort money, force silence, or compel further abuse.

Hindi nangangahulugang ang rape itself ay simpleng cybercrime lamang. Isa itong hiwalay at mabigat na krimen laban sa tao. Ngunit maaaring gamitin ang cyberspace sa paghahanap ng biktima, pagbuo ng tiwala, pagbabanta, pagtatago ng ebidensiya, at pagpapatuloy ng pang-aabuso.

Theft and robbery have also acquired new forms. A criminal no longer needs to seize a wallet physically when he can obtain the victim’s password, one-time PIN, bank details, or electronic identity. The weapon may no longer be a knife pointed at the body. It may be a fraudulent link sent to an unsuspecting person.

Sa traditional robbery, maaaring marinig ng iba ang sigaw ng biktima. Sa online theft, maaaring tahimik lamang siyang nakatitig sa cellphone habang pinapanood na mawala ang perang ilang taon niyang inipon.

The damage is silent, but the pain is real.

One of the most painful examples is the love scam. Criminal syndicates use dating applications and social media to build false emotional relationships. They study the loneliness, hopes, fears, and vulnerabilities of their targets. They send sweet messages, make promises, and create an illusion of affection.

Then the requests begin.

May emergency raw. May motorcycle na tutubusin. May ice cream machine a dapat bilihin sa negosyo. May nagkasakit na kamag-anak. May package na naipit sa customs. May investment opportunity. May negosyong kailangang pondohan. May perang kailangang ipadala bago sila magkita.

Unti-unti, nagbibigay ang biktima. Hindi lamang dahil naniwala siya sa kuwento, kundi dahil naniwala siyang may taong nagmamahal, naghihintay, at nangangailangan sa kanya.

Then one day, the messages stop. The account disappears. The promised meeting never happens. The money is gone. And the victim is left with the unbearable realization that the love he or she believed in never existed.

Cybercrime does not merely steal money. It steals trust, dignity, security, and sometimes even the victim’s desire to face another day.

This is the reason I conceived and am proposing CLICK, a comprehensive Nationwide Police Anti-Cybercrime Program that may be adopted by the Philippine National Police and placed under the operational leadership of the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group.

To make it clear, CLICK is my original concept and policy proposal. I am offering it to the National Government, particularly the Philippine National Police, with the hope that it will be studied, refined, funded, adopted, and institutionalized.

CLICK stands for Cybercrime Law Enforcement through Intelligence, Community Coordination, and Knowledge.

CLICK is intended to strengthen the PNP ACG, provide it with greater funding, expand its operations nationwide, and bring cybercrime prevention and enforcement closer to Filipino communities. It seeks to unify law enforcement, intelligence, digital investigation, forensic examination, public education, victim assistance, interagency coordination, and community participation.

The concept is patterned after ADORE, or Anti-Illegal Drug Operations thru Reinforcement and Education, a program that I also conceived and authored.

ADORE could have remained an idea on paper. But former Chief PNP General Dionardo Carlos recognized its potential, adopted it, and gave it institutional life through the Philippine National Police. It was formally launched on March 14, 2022.

General Carlos understood that illegal drugs could not be addressed through arrests and police operations alone. Enforcement had to be reinforced by education, prevention, coordination, and community participation.

Today, I carry the same hope for CLICK.

I hope that the National Government, particularly the PNP, will give this concept the same serious consideration that General Carlos gave ADORE. Behind this proposal is not merely a desire to name another program, but a sincere attempt to protect Filipinos from a threat that silently enters their homes and steals from them without warning.

An idea cannot protect lives if it remains on paper. It needs leaders willing to listen, institutions prepared to act, and police officers capable of transforming a concept into operational reality.

The first C in CLICK stands for Cybercrime, the constantly evolving threat that the program must confront. L stands for Law Enforcement, because offenders and criminal groups must be investigated, arrested, and prosecuted according to law. I stands for Intelligence, because the police must detect criminal patterns and anticipate new schemes. The second C stands for Community Coordination, because the government cannot protect cyberspace without the cooperation of citizens, schools, businesses, financial institutions, digital platforms, and local governments. K stands for Knowledge, because an informed population is the country’s first line of cyber defense.

Knowledge must become a weapon against deception.

If there is a foot patrol on our streets, there must be a cyber patrol in the digital world.

CLICK should not merely wait for someone to lose money, become a victim of blackmail, or suffer exploitation before taking action. It must support lawful cyber patrols, intelligence gathering, digital investigations, financial tracing, evidence preservation, victim assistance, and the disruption of criminal networks.

Ngunit ang cyber patrol ay hindi lisensya para sa mass surveillance o pakikialam sa pribadong komunikasyon nang walang legal na batayan.

Cyber policing must respect the Constitution, Data Privacy Act, Cybercrime Prevention Act, rules governing cybercrime warrants, and the fundamental rights of every Filipino. The government must become technologically strong without becoming abusive.

The objective is not to control the internet. It is to prevent criminals from controlling it.

CLICK must also be victim-centered. Victims need protection, counseling, legal assistance, financial tracing, and compassionate treatment.

Hindi nila kailangan ng paninisi. Kailangan nila ng tulong, pag-unawa, at katarungan.

Education must become one of the program’s strongest pillars. The police cannot place an investigator beside every cellphone user, but it can help every Filipino recognize fraudulent links, fake investments, love scams, illegal recruitment, identity theft, and online blackmail.

CLICK must bring cybercrime education to schools, barangays, workplaces, senior citizens, OFW families, businesses, and ordinary social media users. Every informed citizen can become part of the country’s first line of defense.

Cybercrime is a race against time. A cybercriminal can move stolen money through several accounts, convert it into digital assets, and send it beyond Philippine jurisdiction before the victim finishes reporting the incident.

Kapag mabagal ang pag-freeze ng account, maililipat ang pera. Kapag huli ang preservation request, maaaring mabura ang digital evidence. Kapag mahina ang international coordination, maaaring maglaho ang taong nasa likod ng account.

CLICK must therefore strengthen coordination among the PNP ACG, NBI, DICT, CICC, BSP, AMLC, Bureau of Immigration, telecommunications companies, banks, electronic wallet providers, cryptocurrency platforms, and social media companies.

It must also support trained cybercrime personnel and rapid-response mechanisms in strategic regional, provincial, and city police offices, backed by intelligence analysts, digital forensic examiners, financial investigators, victim-assistance officers, and prosecutors trained in electronic evidence.

The success of CLICK should not be measured solely by arrests or warrants. The more meaningful questions are: How many cases result in conviction? How many criminal networks are dismantled? How much stolen money is recovered? How many victims receive assistance? And how many crimes are prevented before another family loses everything?

Mahalaga ang numero, ngunit may buhay sa likod ng bawat numero.

The accomplishments reported under PMGEN Asueta demonstrate that accountability is possible when intelligence, investigation, forensic evidence, prosecution, and judicial action work together. They should convince the government that the PNP ACG deserves greater support for wider and more sustained operations.

Kapuri-puri ang ginagawa ni PMGEN Wilson Asueta at ng kanyang mga tauhan. Ang nakikita natin sa balita ay maliit na bahagi lamang ng kanilang mas malawak at tahimik na laban. Marami sa mga krimeng napipigilan nila ang hindi natin malalaman dahil hindi na umabot sa atin ang panganib.

That is the quiet burden of prevention. When it succeeds, there is no grieving family, no emptied bank account, and no devastated victim appearing in the news.

The Office of the President, DILG, and Chief PNP must acknowledge and support what PMGEN Asueta and the PNP ACG are doing. They must provide the Group with the funding, personnel, technology, and institutional support required to expand its operations nationwide.

I respectfully offer CLICK to the National Government and the Philippine National Police. I hope they will consider adopting and transforming it into an operational program, just as General Dionardo Carlos once opened the doors of the PNP to ADORE.

Habang mahimbing na natutulog ang isang pamilya, maaaring may kriminal nang sumusubok pasukin ang kanilang bank account.

Habang nagpapakahirap ang isang OFW sa ibang bansa, maaaring may scammer nang gumagawa ng kuwento upang nakawin ang kanyang ipon.

Habang naghahanap ng pagmamahal ang isang malungkot na tao, maaaring may sindikato nang naghahanda upang gawing negosyo ang kanyang puso.

That is why the war against cybercrime cannot wait.

If organized crime has entered cyberspace, law enforcement must meet it there.

If there is police visibility on the streets, there must be lawful police presence online.

If there is a foot patrol, there must be a cyber patrol.

Today, one careless click can empty a family’s bank account, steal a person’s identity, exploit an innocent child, facilitate human trafficking, or destroy the future of an OFW who spent years working far from home.

But through the right CLICK, we can educate, protect, investigate, prevent, and deliver justice.

CLICK is my concept, but I offer it to the government and the Filipino people because every Filipino deserves protection with every click.

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