It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
A village councilor, who yielded undocumented firearms, was arrested on Friday by police implementing a search warrant in his house in Cawayan town in Masbate province.
Major Maria Luisa Calubaquib, Bicol police spokesperson, identified the suspect as Sanny Monteclavo, 32, a councilor of Barangay San Vicente. Police served the search warrant to the suspect at his residence at 5:35 p.m.
Seized from Monteclavo were a rifle grenade, a .38-caliber pistol, handcuffs, two handcuffs holsters, a gun holster, and a fired cartridge case for an unknown caliber firearm.
Another local official caught with illegal firearms.
A total of 4,208 erring police officers were dismissed from the service as part of the intensified internal cleansing program of the Philippine National Police (PNP), its chief said on Friday.
Citing latest data, Gen. Archie Gamboa said these are among the 14,523 erring personnel who were sanctioned from July 2016 to June 15, 2020.
Also included in the figure are 7,376 police officers who were suspended, 1,345 reprimanded, 770 demoted, 559 with salaries forfeited, 101 restricted to quarters, and 164 with withheld privileges.
“Under the PNP’s Internal Cleansing Program, we continue to monitor dismissed personnel to check if they are still involved in illegal activities,” Gamboa said in a statement.
He added that if these dismissed PNP members are still engaged in illegal activities, they will be treated as ordinary civilian criminals.
4,208 bad cops dismissed in four years. That is 1,000 per year. 14,523 erring cops caught within four years. Think how many more have not been caught.
A board member in Romblon province was found dead with multiple stab wounds at his home in Odiongan town, Saturday.
Robert Maulion, 58, sustained multiple stab wounds and bruises, as his body was discovered in his residence on the 4th floor of Rose Petals building in Barangay Tabing Dagat around 9:30 a.m.
Another local official assassinated. This one was stabbed to death it seems.
Authorities arrested three suspects, including an Army reservist, in a drug buy-bust operation in a shopping mall in Quezon City on Saturday morning.
Nabbed were reservist Private 1st Class Omar Salillaguia Pagayawan, 35; Arnel Abdul, 31 and a company driver; and Jonaid Londoy, 27 and unemployed.
Another soldier selling shabu.
A public school teacher of Makilala, North Cotabato is in jail after having been arrested by police during an entrapment operation in Kidapawan City on Friday due to alleged extortion activities.
Elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Kidapawan Field Office launched the entrapment at past 9 a.m. inside a roadside eatery on Osmeña Drive in Kidapawan City.
The CIDG, in a report, identified the suspect as Jovanny Daven, 30, of Barangay Balite, Magpet, North Cotabato, and a teacher of the Kisante National High School in Makilala town.
Daven, however, denied the allegations.
“It was our agreement that every student from the Kisante National High School who availed of the parallel enrollment at the vocational school will pay PHP2,000 each,” Daven said.
“Nothing goes to my pocket, our agreement with the school is all the money collected will be used for the development of the Kisante school,” Daven said without saying whether a formal written agreement exists to support his claim.
It's not only PNP officers who are involved in extortion. The teacher denies the charges of course.
A police officer who pretended to pull out a gun when challenged by a patrolman on duty ended up dead in Titay, Zamboanga Sibugay on Saturday night.
The slain policeman was identified as Police Cpl. Jorge Dick Baltazar, 30. The police officer who shot him was identified as Patrolman Laurence Joseph Ancheta, 38.
Investigators said Baltazar went to the police station in civilian attire — a hooded jacket — prompting Ancheta to stop him for verification. Instead of properly answering the security challenge, Baltazar, possibly in jest, pretended to pull out a firearm.
According to protocol, Baltazar should have replied to the challenge with a code word.
An absolutely stupid and preventable incident.
A police corporal escaped death when unidentified men riding-in-tandem shot him past 7 p.m. Saturday (June 27) in Del Carmen, this city.
Maj. Rixell Torayno, chief of Iligan City Police Station 1, said that the target was a police corporal, and when this police officer was driving his vehicle when unidentified armed men shot him upon reaching Barangay Del Carmen.
The police corporal requested not to be named over security reasons.
Torayno said the police corporal, who is presently assigned at the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RDEU) 10 in Cagayan de Oro City, was on his way home when the incident happened.
“He was shot twice but luckily he was not hit. He fired back but the suspects managed to escape very quickly,” Torayno said in an interview.
A cop targeted for assassination escapes death!
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año on Monday said he will issue a show cause order against barangay officials who involved in the conduct of a viral Sinulog street dance and procession in a coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) hotspot in Cebu City.
In a news release, Año said he also ordered the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to conduct an investigation and file charges against the organizers of the said event.
“We will not tolerate any violation of our quarantine protocols. Those responsible will be made to account. Hindi din naman tayo tumitigil sa pagpapaalala na napakalaki ng (We do not stop from reminding that there is a big risk of transmission ng(of) Covid-19 sa (in) mass gathering and yet we see these kinds of activities and what makes it worse ay ang barangay na ito ay isang (is that this village is a) Covid-19 hotspot,” Año said.
“We will definitely get to the bottom of this. We have issued a show cause order against the officials who are involved in this blatant violation of the ECQ currently being implemented in Cebu City,” he added.
Barangay officials allowed street dance and procession in a wanton disregard of the ECQ.
A former police officer was arrested by police and anti-drug agents for illegal drugs in Puerto Princesa City on Monday night.
Lt. Col. Imelda Tolentino, information officer of Mimaropa police, said the arresting team, armed with a warrant of arrest dated October 23, 2019, collared Judelio Torce, 38, in his residence in Barangay Tanglaw at around 6 p.m.
Another ex-cop nabbed for selling drugs. Why does this happen so often?
Criminal charges have been filed against the 15 police officers who were on duty when six Chinese inmates escaped from their detention facility in Camp Karingal in Quezon City.
In a press briefing Tuesday, Quezon City Police District (QCPD) director Brig. Gen. Ronnie Montejo said the erring officers were charged with evasion through negligence, a violation of Article 224 of the Revised Penal Code before the Quezon City Prosecutor's Office.
"'Yung (administrative) case nila, ongoing 'yung investigation (As for their administrative cases, the investigation is still ongoing)," Montejo added.
Last week 6 Chinese inmates escaped a Quezon City jail and the cops on duty were relieved. Now charges have been field against them.
A policeman was arrested here for extortion.
In a report, the arrested cop was identified as SMsgt Pedro Vinluan, 38, a resident of Calasiao town who was assigned to this town.
He was arrested on Sunday (June 28) by officers of the Lingayen police station and the provincial police office after he took money from the extortion complainant.
Another cop accused of extortion.
Barangay Calamba is in hot waters after videos and images of residents engaging in a disco party circulated online last June 28, 2020.
The Department of Interior and Local Government in Central Visayas (DILG-7) has issued a show-cause order against Barangay Captain Victor Quijano of Calamba over the controversial incident that has violated the protocol against public gatherings under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ).
The Cebu City Legal Office, likewise, issued a show-cause order to Quijano as City Legal Officer Rey Gealon said that the incident will always go back to the barangay chief who has jurisdiction in the area.
“It is always a question of command. The barangay chief has the command in the area,” said Gealon.
As for Quijano, he said that the incident was unauthorized by the barangay and that the disco party should not have happened.
According to the barangay’s investigation, residents in the sitio (sub village) were celebrating the feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
Quijano is facing administrative charges over the sitio’s fiesta celebration if he fails to justify the incident. He is given 48 hours to reply to the order.
He is the second village chief to face a show-cause order after Basak San Nicolas Captain Norma Navarro was also issued the same due to a fiesta celebration in his barangay.
The Department of Interior and Local Government in Cebu City (DILG – Cebu City) has summoned the village chairperson of Basak San Nicolas to explain why an unauthorized fiesta celebration took place there last Saturday, June 27.
DILG-Cebu City issued a show-cause order addressed to Barangay Basak San Nicolas Captain Norman Navarro on Monday, June 29, to explain, within 48 hours, the incident. This is on top of the show-cause order that the Cebu City Legal Office has issued to the village official last Sunday, June 28.
Lawyer Ian Kenneth Lucero, officer-in-charge of DILG- Cebu City, confirmed in a phone interview with CDN Digital that they had received orders from DILG’s central office to look into the matter.
“He (Navarro) is given 48 hours to respond to our show-cause order. As the village chairperson and the local chief executive of the barangay, he needs to explain why and how it happened under his watch,” Lucero said in Cebuano.
Two barngay captains in Cebu under fire for late outdoor festivals held in their barangays. At least one of them says it wasn't his fault but the DILG says the buck stops with them.
The Tabogon Police Station has filed raps for violations of the Cockfighting Law, in relation to illegal gambling, against 57 persons, including a barangay chief, over an illegal cockfight activity held in the town’s Barangay Kal-anan last Saturday, June 27, 2020.
Police Lieutenant Jito Buloron, chief of the Tabogon Police Station, said the 57 persons include the 53 men whom they arrested last Saturday, three others believed to be the organizers of the tigbakay or illegal cockfight, and the village chief of Barangay Kal-anan.
Another barangay captain involved in illegal cockfighting.
Relieved Puerto Princesa City police chief Col. Marion Balonglong is facing criminal and administrative complaints over the alleged illegal arrest and maltreatment of eight employees of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
In an 18-page complaint filed before the Office of the Ombudsman on June 21, the DENR said Balonglong must be held liable for torture, unlawful arrest, slight physical injuries, obstruction of apprehension and prosecution of criminal offenders as well as graft and corruption.
The DENR said Balonglong must also be investigated for grave misconduct, grave abuse of authority, conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service and violation of Republic Act 6317 or the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees.
It said Balonglong also violated the protocols on physical distancing amid the state of emergency due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Three foresters, four forest rangers and a forest protection officer were conducting an investigation in connection with the unlawful occupation of forest and cutting of mangrove trees in Sitio Bucana, Barangay Iwahig-Matahimik on June 10 when they were allegedly accosted by a group of police officers led by Balonglong.
The DENR employees were allegedly ordered to lie on the ground while being subjected to body search. One of them was “repeatedly kicked and stomped” on the ground at gunpoint.
The DENR team was brought to the PNP station in Barangay San Pedro, where they were detained for several hours.
No word on why the police chief illegally detained these DENR employees and abused one of them at gunpoint. Will the officers who were with him also be charged and relieved?
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