It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1131473 |
Some 18 police officers and non-uniformed personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) are facing dismissal after they tested positive for illegal drugs during a random test.
PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas on Monday said he ordered the pre-charge investigation and summary dismissal proceedings against the 17 police officers and one non-uniformed personnel.
“Starting this year I have already signed the directive that all cases related to random drug testing at tao namin sa drugs should be resolved by the regional director immediately para mapabilis po (to hasten the process) at centralized na angrecording ngayon (and recording is now centralized)," Sinas said in a press briefing at Camp Crame.
17 PNP officers and one non-uniformed personnel to be dismissed for testing positive for drugs.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1399032/quezon-village-watchman-nabbed-for-possession-of-illegal-gun |
A barangay tanod (village watchman) in Sariaya town in Quezon province was arrested for alleged illegal possession of a firearm.
A police team nabbed Alexander Cabula, 49, a watchman in Barangay Bignay I, for carrying an undocumented caliber .45 pistol in the said village around 8:30 p.m., a report said.
A policeman accosted Cabula, whom they saw with a pistol grip protruding from his waist.
The suspect failed to produce a permit and license for the said firearm.
A village watchmen was caught with an illegal gun.
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2021/02/24/2079908/soldier-kills-superior-cagayan |
An Army sergeant was shot dead by his subordinate following an argument in Barangay Piggatan in Alcala, Cagayan on Monday.
A police report said the incident occurred when Cpl. Rickson Rulloda confronted Sgt. Paulino Gavino Jr. for assigning him to another unit.
He will probably be courtmartialed as well as tossed in the brig.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1399592/suspended-patrolman-allegedly-abducted-in-manila-police |
A suspended police officer was allegedly abducted by five unidentified armed men in Sta. Mesa, Manila on Wednesday morning, police said.
In an initial report, Manila Police District (MPD) chief Brigadier General Leo Francisco identified the victim as Patrolman Real Lopez Tesoro, 41.
Police records showed that Tesoro was last assigned to the Regional Police Holding and Accounting Section of the National Capital Region Police Office.
According to the police report, the patrolman was walking along V Mapa Extension in Barangay 601 at 10:05 a.m. when four armed men and a woman, onboard two sports utility vehicles, reportedly abducted him.
No word on why this cop was suspended which would no doubt shed light on why he was abducted.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/24/21/missing-dswd-staff-found-dead-in-bulacan-arms-and-feet-tied-head-wrapped-in-packaging-tape |
An employee of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) was found dead in San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan Sunday afternoon.
Police identified the victim as Justine Charles Accad, 30 years old and a resident of Barangay Malanday in Marikina City.
Accad was reported missing on February 19, and was found dead 2 days later, with his arms and feet tied and his head wrapped in packaging tape.
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2021/02/25/2080172/pdea-boc-chiefs-face-raps-p1-billion-shabu-auction |
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) yesterday filed complaints of graft and grave misconduct against Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director general Wilkins Villanueva, former PDEA chief Aaron Aquino and Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Rey Guerrero over a shipment of P1 billion worth of shabu stashed in tapioca starch in 2019.
Also charged before the Department of Justice (DOJ) were BOC Deputy Commissioner Raniel Ramiro as well as PDEA directors Joel Plaza, Aldrin Albarino, Jigger Montallana and several anti-narcotics agents.
The respondents are facing charges related to drugs, graft, grave misconduct, serious dishonesty as well as violation of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Employees, Customs Modernization and Tariff Act and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of service.
The charges stemmed from the smuggling of 171 kilos of shabu that were found to be hidden in aluminum pallets in a tapioca starch shimpment.
The PDEA said it received intelligence information that drugs concealed in tapioca would be delivered to the country in January 2019.
Authorities reportedly found an abandoned tapioca shipment in March and put it up for auction in April allegedly to draw out possible members of drug rings.
The drug haul was confiscated in May in the warehouse of the winning bidder in Malabon.
The BOC had insisted that it only auctioned off tapioca.
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| https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/02/24/2080190/pnp-failed-follow-protocols-many-drug-operations-guevarra-tells-un-rights-body |
At a high-level meeting of the UNHRC, Guevarra said initial findings showed that weapons allegedly recovered from those killed in the operations were not examined to check the police narrative that the "drug personalities" sought to resist arrest or that they fought back.
"No verification of its ownership was taken [and] no request for ballistic examination or paraffin test was pursued until its completion," he said.
"In more than half of the records reviewed, the law enforcement agents involved failed to follow standard protocols pertaining to coordination with other agencies and the processing of the crime scene."
He also told the UNHRC that Philippine National Police leadership had already been informed of the findings, and administrative and criminal charges were already recommended against "scores of police officers" found to have violated protocols.
Shouldn't the PNP leadership have known about this? They probably did and did not care. This report only serves to justify all the critics of the drug war.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1400008/negros-oriental-judge-finds-5-pdea-agents-guilty-of-indirect-contempt-of-court-for-fake-buy-bust |
A judge in Negros Oriental has found five agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) guilty of indirect contempt of court in connection with an alleged fake buy-bust operation in Barangay Looc, Dumaguete City.
Judge Amelia Lourdes Mendoza of the Regional Trial Court Branch 34 sentenced PDEA agents Nelson Muchuelas, May Ann Carmelo, Jose Anthony Juanites, Cheryl Mae Villaver, and Realyn Pinpin to six months imprisonment at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Dumaguete and to pay P30,000-fine each.
The court has also issued warrants of arrest for the five agents.
The court concluded that the PDEA agents arrested five drug suspects in separate places and not in a single buy-bust operation on June 28, 2020. The drug charges against the five agents were dismissed in October.
“The court wants to emphasize that the basis for the indirect contempt charges arises from the fact that the official narrative of the arrests as contained in the affidavits, photographs, and other attachments to the complaint, has been unmasked as false and fake,” the judge said.
These cops arrested 5 people in separate locations and then claimed that they arrested them all in a single buy-bust operation. It was all a lie. Now they will likely end up in prison for six months.
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| https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/02/25/2080271/cops-vs-pdea-shootout-near-mall-leaves-2-dead |
The gunfight erupted near a fastfood restaurant shortly before 6 p.m. and lasted for almost an hour, reports said. Bystanders scampered into different directions as gunshots rang out.
An initial police report said three police officers from the QCPD Special Operations Unit, identified as Lt. Ronnie Ereno and Corporals Lauro de Guzman and Calvin Eric Garado, and two PDEA agents were wounded in the incident.
Investigation showed the police were conducting a drug sting, unaware that the persons they were transacting with were PDEA agents.
During the confrontation, the PDEA agents reportedly opened fire and shot the policemen which triggered a shootout which lasted for almost an hour.
The policemen claimed the operation was properly coordinated with PDEA and had the necessary documents.
If this operation were properly coordinated then how was the PNP unaware they were transacting with PDEA agents?
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