^^^Questions 1, 2, and 3 are rhetorical questions; thus, there is no need to answer them.

On question 4-

Don Goco is supposed to be driver, then why would he ask about the “liabilities of the driver if we push thru with the case.”

On question 5-

No law that requires a police report to be notarized. Please take note that a police report is nothing but certification issued by the desk officer and noted by the COP to the effect that on a particular time and date an incident regarding of a particular fact happened at a particular place on a specific time and date involving some persons was registered or recorded in the police blotter. It need not be notarized because the contents of the police report are extract of entries in the official record (police blotter). Entries in official records made in the performance of his duty by a public officer of the Philippines, or by a person in the performance of a duty specially enjoined by law, are prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.

On question 6-

There is no such thing. This is so because before you are issued with a police report or certification, you need to pay a certain amount at the municipal or city treasurer’s office. Then you present the official receipt (under the name of the Republic of the Philippines) to the police as proof of payment of the required fee so that you will be issued with the police report or certification.

With respect to this kind of MO, some words of advice: First, criminals who pull a stunt like this one are operating in their own turf where they are familiar with and accustomed to. Criminals are territorial in nature, especially the petty ones. So, if you find yourself in the same situation as Mr. Goco, it is important that you get the complete names and addresses of the child and the mother, and it is just as important that you get their personal circumstances correctly, because they are doing the same MO mostly at the same place and within same window. In other words, the police in the area know these things already (some of them may be complicit), and most probably their names are already recorded in the police blotter for nth time. Second, you insist on what happened and have it recorded in the police blotter also. You take a mental note of the plates of the motorists behind and beside you, who may have witnessed what actually transpired.