Date: 4 Sep 2010 Comments: 0

Government of the Philippines Commission investigation of the hostages was killed Friday, the official hearing, several officials called to testify. Some officials acknowledged that there are multiple mistakes in the incident. The Philippine President Aquino III said, is willing to bear the ultimate responsibility for the incident.

Minister of Justice, presided over the hearing de Lima, who had been summoned to give evidence, including the Philippine National Police Director Berzosa, hostage rescue scene commander Senior Superintendent of Police Headquarters in Manila Matiwoii, Deputy Minister of the Interior Puno etc. . Hong Kong SAR also sent officials to observe the proceedings.

To monitor the event processing and reporting to the President, Deputy Interior Minister Puno admitted that he had not been training in dealing with hostage-taking incident, and no experience in this area. Then rely on on-site commander and negotiator handling the incident, he did not think that needs to be upgraded to the national crisis. He said the gunman that day have been considered for reinstatement of Mendoza, but was rejected.

Police Chief Berzosa admitted the police for crowd control and media capabilities imperfect, so that rescue interference by the masses, more bystanders injured in the shootout. Berzosa added that special police lack training and equipment, although the rescue process flaws, but he did not think that is a total failure. He said good progress in the initial negotiations, so he decided to leave Manila at 2:30 pm at Mindanao anti-terrorism forum.

In addition, hostage rescue operations has been severely criticized the Philippine police on Friday for the exercise, Moot case of a bank situation, law enforcement officers and robbers negotiations, the man who hijacked the onlookers hostage.Police officials said, hoped that through the exercise to assess the ability of the police force, equipment, rescue procedures and implementation details of the other.