“As we heed the marching orders of the President to make human rights my legacy, we now see Mamang Pulis as more aware, conscious, and sensitive to upholding the human dignity and the highest principle of human rights. Needless to say, he has emerged more humane or makatao.” 
Police Senior Superintendent LINA C SARMIENTO, Chief, Human Rights Affairs Office at the Forum on "Working Together for the Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT)".
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Mr Paul Schafer (in blue shirt), Philippine Resident Representative of Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF), and Mr Jurgen Rein of Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich, Germany, read the story about the foundation's assistance to PNP human rights initiatives published in the January 2008 issue of Police Digest. The two HSF officials visited the PNP HRAO office on March 4, 2008. Looking on are PSSUPT Lina C Sarmiento, Chief, PNP HRAO, PCI Ernesto R Macasil, MaryAnn Co of HSF, and representatives of Alternative Law Groups. The Chief, HRAO gave copies of Police Digest to the HSF officials. <<Full Story>>