EDITORIAL – Too quick answers automatically raise suspicions

When it comes to solving crimes, it is best to leave the job to the police, who is the considered expert in these things. You cannot become a policeman if you do not undergo some kind of training in solving crimes.

But for the police in Bogo, investigating a P9.4 million robbery at a Land Bank of the Philippines branch on Tuesday night, to say less than 24 hours later that it suspects an inside job is simply too good to be true.

Okay, all things being equal, we cannot rule out the possibility that the Bogo police can approximate the speed and the skill with which the London Metropolitan Police has solved the bombings in the British capital.

But we have to know the basis from which the Bogo police drew its "conclusions" after just 24 hours of "sleuthing" and from there draw our own conclusions on whether to believe it or flatly reject its findings.

And unfortunately, the basis from which the Bogo police drew its "conclusions" that the heist was an inside job is a theory so preposterous one wonders if its investigators did not just pluck it out of thin air just so they can have some update to feed their bosses and the public.

Listen, this is how the Bogo police concluded that the robbery was an inside job: It was an inside job because the robbers could not have known there was lots of money in the bank. In other words, an insider must have tipped off the robbers to come and get it.

A theory like this is lethal. It can kill the listener of heart attack. Of course, there is always lots of money in a bank. A bank is not called a bank if it does not have lots of money in it. Hello? Is the Bogo police all intact up there?

Now, if the Bogo police insists it was an inside job on the theory that somebody leaked the information that, ha ha ha, the Land Bank of the Philippines branch in that municipality has lots of money inside, what is to prevent others from drawing up similar spineless theories?

How about if somebody theorizes that the Bogo police itself is involved? What if somebody asks why would the Bogo police be so quick to point the finger at somebody else if not to deflect attention from its own self? Just asking. Which is to say, there ought to be no quick answers. Yet.