Police profiling of members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) is part of a government witch hunt, both the Philippine National Police and the teachers’ group said on Tuesday. PNP Director General Oscar Albayalde said police efforts to identify ACT members on the faculty of schools were part of the campaign to end the communist insurgency. CPP ‘legal fronts’ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio said the PNP order to place ACT members under surveillance may have come from President Rodrigo Duterte himself. Schools in Calabarzon have received letters and visits by the PNP looking for ACT members. Tinio noted that a copy of the PNP memorandum showed that the profiling of public school teachers was related to the elections in May.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 08, 2019 23:26 UTC