“I would like to think the best legacy I left in the police institution was the discipline that I instilled in my policemen who I enjoined to stop huffing and puffing with big bulging tummies. Instead, they maintained a maximum waistline of 34 inches so they would be trim and thin when they chased robbers and other criminals,” he said. Lacson headed the PNP from 1999 to 2001.
Lacson, who as PNP chief, personally led his men in physical fitness regimens, said the police personnel would benefit by way of being healthier. “Para sa kanila yan,” he said. But most importantly, the sight of fit and trim police officers pounding their beats would instill confidence in the public, he said.
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