Retards in the Government 210

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

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1441994/cop-4-traffic-regulators-nabbed-for-extortion-in-pampanga

A police officer and four members of the local traffic management office were arrested for alleged extortion in Apalit town in Pampanga province on Friday, a police report said Saturday.

Operatives of the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group-Luzon Field Unit (IMEG-LFU) arrested Police Corporal Leomar Calegan, 37; Marlon De Guzman, 39; Menard Mendoza, 32; Michael Maniulit, 50; and Noel Manarang, 23. Calegan’s companions were members of Apalit’s Truck Ban Traffic Management Office.

The five were arrested after an undercover operative of the IMEG-LFU boarded a cargo truck and pretended to be a member of a truck crew. Upon reaching the San Simon North Luzon Expressway access road-MacArthur Highway intersection where the suspects were flagging down trucks, the operative handed over two pieces of marked P500 bills to the group. The suspects were then immediately placed under arrest.

Operatives confiscated P804,170 from the suspects, believed to be the group’s “collection” from truck drivers who passed through the “checkpoint” that day.

A cop and four traffic enforcers have been arrested for extorting truck drivers.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1142801

Three people, including a former policewoman, were arrested while close to PHP100,000 worth of illegal drugs seized in separate anti-drug operations in this city and in nearby Zamboanga Sibugay province, a top police official announced Monday.

Brig. Gen. Ronaldo Genaro Ylagan, Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) director, identified the arrested former policewoman as Charlotte Reyes Foncardas, 39.

Ylagan said Foncardas was arrested by operatives of the Zamboanga City Police Office’s (ZCPO) Station 11 in a buy-bust operation around 5:50 p.m. Sunday in Barangay Pasobolong, this city.

Confiscated from Foncardas were more or less 10 grams of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu packed in 22 heat-sealed plastic sachets worth PHP68,000 and PHP500 marked money.

A former policewoman has been arrested on drug charges.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1142981

Three aspiring police officers lost their chance to join the force for submitting fake swab test results in the ongoing recruitment of the Police Regional Office- Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR), Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said on Tuesday. 

“I have already issued an order to delist the names of all the applicants who deliberately submitted fake RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) tests in PRO-BAR. This order extends to other PROs and PNP units to do the same. We will not give a second chance for this year’s recruitment to those who would dare bastardize our recruitment process,” Eleazar said in a statement. 

The three applicants, who are set to face criminal charges, were among 66 applicants who were probed over the incident. 

Meanwhile, nine applicants were already cleared while the remaining 54 are still undergoing investigation.

Nipping corruption in the bud. But there could be 54 more recruits who also get the boot for fake COVID tests!

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1143246

The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the dismissal of a worker who tested positive for illegal drug use in January.

In a resolution promulagated in March and published online on Wednesday, the High Court en banc found storekeeper Mark de Guzman guilty of grave misconduct due to the use of a prohibited drug and ordered his dismissal from the service.

The SC Medical and Dental Services likewise directed the referral of de Guzman to a suitable drug rehabilitation facility at his own expense.

The respondent smoked marijuana inside SC premises and cigarettes at the stockroom of the Property Division in the Old SC Building.

Fellow employees also found out he would go to blind spots not covered by security cameras during office hours to smoke. He covered windows with plastic sheets to prevent smoke from coming out.

Supreme Court employee fired for smoking grass and cigarettes on the premises of the SC.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/06/09/2104254/charges-prepared-against-calbayog-mayors-son-cops-after-ambush-shootout

The Philippine National Police has filed charges against four cops and Ronald Mark Aquino for alleged involvement in the ambush-shooting of the latter's father, Calbayog City Mayor Ronaldo Aquino. 

This was confirmed by Police Maj. Gen. Alfred Corpuz at Wednesday morning's hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs on the incident. 

Corpuz said that the Police Regional Office 8 had already filed homicide and murder raps against those involved in the shootout, including the victim's son. 

Charges have been field against four cops who were involved in a shoot out with the Mayor of Calbayog City a few months ago. The NBI says the PNP fired first. The PNP continues to deny this.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1142960

Six village officials have been charged due to the occurrence of recent superspreader events in their areas as the government intensifies its crackdown on violators of health protocols amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.

In a Cabinet meeting with President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Monday night, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said these superspreader events include the incidents at the Gubat sa Ciudad Resort, Barangay 171 in Caloocan City; Recreational Resort and Pool Operations in San Jose, Navotas City; boxing matches in Barangay 181 and 182 in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila; the incident at the Bakas River in Barangay Matictic, Norzagaray, Bulacan; Barangay Balabag, Boracay Island and Barangay Sambiray, both in Malay, Aklan; and the Club Holic Bar and Restaurant in Barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu.

Six village officials charged with holding super spreader events and not following health protocols.