BAGUIO CITY – The first lady regional director of the Cordillera office of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI-CAR) vowed to go after unscrupulous individuals and groups behind the proliferation of investment scams in the region to ensure that the hard earned money of the people will be protected from the illegal activities of scammers.
Newly-installed NBI-CAR regional director lawyer Janet M. Francisco stated that the bureau is already in possession of intelligence reports on the proliferation of investment scams in the different parts of the region which is now the subject of the necessary case buildup to ensure that cases that will be filed against the perpetrators of such scams are airtight.
She claimed that aside from investment scams, the bureau is also looking into individuals who have been charged for large-scale and syndicated estafa so that appropriate manhunt operations can conducted to arrest the culprits for them to answer for the crimes they committed against innocent individuals who invested their hard-earned money to the organized investment scams.
Francisco said she is currently reviewing the cases being handled by the bureau in the region to ascertain the appropriate steps to be undertaken to resolve cases so that the suspects will be made to answer for the crimes that they had committed through the cases that will be filed in court against them.
Apart from investment scams, the NBI-CAR official disclosed that among her major priorities in the region is the resolution of high-profile drug and human trafficking cases to help in containing prostitution in urban centers around the region.
Director Francisco, who was the former head of the NBI-s anti-human trafficking division, pointed out that the bureau will be aggressive in going after online sexual prostitution against children.
According to her, NBI-CAR agents will undergo stringent trainings on human trafficking and online sexual prostitution to ensure that such high-profile cases will be averted in the region considering the proliferation of such cases in other urban areas of the country.
The lady NBI-CAR official assured the public that the bureau will always be ready to extend the needed assistance to victims of various crimes to ensure the timely resolution of the cases in close coordination with their counterparts in other law enforcement agencies.
She commended the NBI-CAR agents for being one of the top performers in the bureau that is why she is eager to work with the personnel of the NBI-CAR in resolving various crimes that had been or will be committed in the different parts of the region to give justice to the victims of said cases.
She urged the public to always seek the assistance of the NBI-Car for the investigation of high profile and other crimes that were committed against them so that the necessary investigation could be done to facilitate the filing of the appropriate cases against the individuals involved in such cases for them to answer for the violation of the laws that they had committed.
The NBI-CAR had been adjudged by the central office as one of the top performing regions in the past that paved the way for its being tagged as one of the most bemedaled regional offices of the bureau.
