Retards in the Government 225

It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/400948/manila-cop-toys-with-service-gun-accidentally-shoots-dead-delivery-rider

A policeman who was said to have been toying with his service firearm accidentally shot dead a delivery rider in Tondo, Manila Thursday evening. 

A report from the Raxabago Police Station of the Manila Police District identified the suspect as Cpl. Oliver Ferrer, assigned at Police Station 1 in Tondo, while the victim was identified as Jayson Capistrano. 

According to the report, the suspect went together with Cpl. Jerome Mingote to Barangay 183 to visit the barangay chairman on Thursday evening before the incident happened. 

“While PCpl Ferrer together with their other friend (were) waiting thereat and having conversation with the victim, PCpl Ferrer jokingly drew his firearm as stated by witness (PCpl Mingote) and, allegedly, it accidentally went off, hitting the victim,” the report read.

Another idiotic PNP officer kills someone because he treated his deadly weapon as a toy.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1489373/pnp-albay-cop-tagged-in-indecent-mall-act-to-face-probe

The police officer who reportedly performed an indecent act in front of a saleslady in Legazpi City, Albay, will be investigated and subjected to a psychological fitness check, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar assured the public on Friday.

Eleazar said he has directed the regional director of the Police Regional Office 5 (PRO-5) to probe the incident, after information about a police officer’s alleged  act inside a mall reached his office.

(I have learned of the incident involving a police officer in a mall in Legazpi City, wherein the entire police organization got dragged.)

(Whether a police officer or a civilian, no one in his right mind will do such things, hence I have ordered the Bicol regional police to investigate the incident and carry out appropriate actions, including necessary medical intervention for the police officer to address whatever it is he is going through.)

An unnamed cop committed an unnamed indecent act in public. Seems like he flashed his junk to a saleslady.

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2021/09/19/2128103/camsur-judge-charged-rape-dismissed

Judge Jaime Contreras of the Naga Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 25 in Camarines Sur, who was charged with rape, attempted rape, acts of lasciviousness as well as child abuse, exploitation and discrimination, has been dismissed for grave misconduct.

The Supreme Court (SC) said an administrative complaint was filed against Contreras before the Office of the Court of Administrator in 2014.

The SC said a warrant had since been issued, but Contreras evaded arrest, making him a “fugitive judge.”

“The court held that a judge who deliberately and continuously fails and refuses to comply with lawful orders or resolutions is guilty of grave misconduct. By becoming a fugitive from justice and evading arrest, Judge Contreras committed grave misconduct,” the SC said.

Based on the complaint, Contreras allegedly first molested his victim in 1994. The victim said the abuse became more frequent until 2004.

The high court said the judge was also guilty of dishonesty for failing to disclose in his personal data sheet that he was found to have committed simple misconduct by the Office of the Ombudsman when he applied as judge in 2016.

A judge has been accused of raping someone, a child it seems, for a decade. He is now dismissed and on the run from the law.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1489897/cop-nabbed-for-p300000-extortion-try-in-isabela

A police master sergeant was arrested in an entrapment operation after he allegedly tried to extort P300,000 from an arrested drug personality’s kin in exchange for “case-fixing” on Sunday in this city, police said. 

Police Lieutenant Colonel Andree Michelle Camhol-Abella, Cagayan Valley police information officer, said Police Master Sergeant Sherwin Gamit, 38, assigned at the warrant section of the Cauayan City police, was arrested for robbery-extortion and for illegal possession of firearms in front of the Our Lady of Pilar Catholic Church in Rizal Avenue, District 1 village at 10:52 a.m. 

The Philippine National Police-Regional Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Team (RIMET), Isabela police intelligence unit, and the Cauayan police caught Gamit while receiving the P300,000 marked money from the female relative of a drug suspect. 

RIMET agents found out that Gamit allegedly tried to extort P300,000 in exchange for fixing the case of a suspect who was earlier arrested for alleged drug dealing. 

After the woman handed the cash to Gamit, police officers who were “discreetly positioned overlooking the transaction” immediately rushed up and arrested him.

Another cop arrested for extortion.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154068

The Sandiganbayan has sentenced a former town treasurer to up to seven years in prison for malversation of public funds amounting to nearly half a million pesos.

In a 26-page decision dated Sept. 8, 2021 written by Associate Justice Maria Theresa Mendoza-Arcega and recently released online, the anti-graft court's Fifth Division found Reynalda Mariscal, former municipal treasurer of Calabanga, Camarines Sur, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of malversation and sentenced her from six to seven years.

She must also pay a fine of PHP401,334.86, the amount she was found liable for, and indemnify the government with the same amount, with an annual interest of six percent from the date of the decision and until it is fully paid.

“In malversation of public funds, previous demand is not necessary. Demand merely raises a prima facie presumption that missing funds have been put to personal use,” the court stated.

In 2001, a confidential office order was issued, directing state auditors to conduct a cash and account examination on Mariscal covering the period June 14, 2001 to Nov. 7, 2001.

At the end of the examination, a letter of demand was sent to Mariscal, informing of her total accountability amounting to PHP966,743.53.

Mariscal presented cash and items amounting to PHP565,408.67 or a shortage of PHP401,334.86.

She claimed in her affidavit that the shortage was given to certain municipal employees as cash advances.

The court, however, noted that Mariscal “has not shown any proof that the funds were actually extended to the municipal employees as cash advances”.

A former treasurer's sentence of 7 years of prison time for malversation of funds back in 2001 has been upheld.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/401752/cebu-city-administrator-faces-complaint-for-overpriced-renting-of-vans-jeepneys

Cebu City Administrator Floro Casas, Jr., is once again in the hot seat due to another procurement issue raised by residents here. 

The two private complainants, Nicaster Elim Lumacad and Andrew Jacalan Lumapguid, filed a case of grave misconduct against Casas before the Office of the Ombudsman due to the city government’s renting of 373 vans and jeepneys amounting to P48,902,000. 

The complainants claimed that the city government released P48.902 million from March 26, 2020, to September 3, 2020, to various renting establishments. 

The city paid these establishments P5,500 per day, which the complainants said was twice the rate the Lapu-Lapu Government has paid for the same procurements, which is only at P2,166.67 per day. 

Furthermore, the complainants said that during the time period when these vans were rented, there were already 71 buses deployed by other agencies for the free rides. 

They lamented that the city government could release such huge funds for rented vans but could not release the salaries of health workers on time.

City of Cebu accused of paying too much to rent vans.