It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/29/21/cop-accused-of-raping-quarantine-violator-faces-dismissal |
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said Sunday he has ordered the immediate dismissal of a policeman accused of raping an alleged quarantine violator in Bataan.
Patrolman Elmer Tuazon Jr. and a certain Armando Dimaculangan, a marshal team leader at the control point in Barangay Batangas 2, Mariveles town, face complaints of rape by sexual assault and acts of lasciviousness, Eleazar said.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1151907 |
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar on Saturday ordered a probe on the alleged extortion and misbehavior of police officers manning a checkpoint on Andrews Avenue in Pasay City.
“This complaint was forwarded to me and I personally watched the videos that were posted on social media. I have already ordered the Southern Police District, through the Regional Director of the NCRPO (National Capital Region Police Office) to look into this,” he said in a statement.
This came as some netizens expressed concern on social media over the alleged extortion of cops on motorists passing by the area.
They claimed that cops would flag motorists for allegedly disregarding traffic signs, adding that the police officers will immediately issue violation tickets to them.
A netizen even said a cop allegedly threatened to put them in jail for disrespecting them.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152014 |
An anti-drug operative of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) was gunned down by a motorcycle-riding assailant along Rosario Street here on Sunday afternoon.
A report of Police Station 1 identified the victim as Staff Sgt. Joseph Nepomuceno, 37, a member of the City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU).
Nepomuceno was also on a motorcycle traveling in Barangay 15 when he was shot.
He sustained four gunshot wounds from a caliber .45 pistol and was declared dead at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital.
Col. Manuel Placido, BCPO director, said investigators are already tracking the gunman and motorcycle driver.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152027 |
Two policemen, including a senior officer, were separately arrested for the delay and bungling with prosecution of drug cases, which is a violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Brig. Gen. Ronaldo Genaro Ylagan, Police Regional Office-9 (PRO-9) director, identified the arrested policemen as Corporal Junhavier Alam Ahmadul, 42; and Lt. Col. Nonito Asdai, 55.
The case against Asdai and Ahmadul stemmed from when they were still assigned at the Zamboanga City Police Office’s (ZCPO) Station 6.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1481126/duterte-says-he-is-the-one-who-ordered-to-skip-bidding-on-ppe-procurement-ako-ipakulong-nila |
President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday admitted he was the one who ordered Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to skirt from the bidding process in the procurement of protective personal equipment (PPE) during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(I was the one who ordered Duque. When we were here, I told him “I want it done immediately.” I told him it should only take one or two days. I was the one who told him “I am sure there is a law which would exempt you from bidding.” This is a pandemic so we had to act immediately.)
(I was the one who ordered it. Let them jail me.)
He reasoned that the usual bidding process takes 30 days and the government needed supplies immediately as the pandemic is starting to wreak havoc in the country.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/08/31/21/bulacan-town-mayors-birthday-gathering-violated-protocols-doh |
The mayor of Obando town in Bulacan violated COVID-19 protocols for gathering with residents on his birthday, the Department of Health said Tuesday.
Mayor Edwin Santos said he was surprised by his barangay officials and some of his friends, who brought food to this house.
The mayor should have advised his friends to postpone the gathering, said DOH spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire.
"Based on our protocols they have violated whatever restrictions we're imposing right now. Kahit hindi po niya kasalanan, kahit di po niya sinasadya, sinasabi na pumunta lang ang mga tao, sana nabigyan natin ng advise ang ating mga kababayan na umuwi na lang sila atsaka na lang sila magse-celebrate," she told ANC's Headstart.
(Even if it was not his fault, not planned, and that people surprised him, he should have advised them to just go home and celebrate at a later time.)
"This might cause something that can increase transmission in their locality."
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152132 |
Seven Bulacan policemen have been charged in the abduction and murder of six individuals after a series of fake buy-bust operations in February last year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday.The seven cops have been ordered relieved and are under restrictive custody for one year now.
They were charged for the detention and killing of Chamberlain Domingo, Chadwin Santos, Edmar Aspirin, Richard Salgado, Erwin Mergal, and Jim Joshua Cordero.
The DOJ panel of prosecutors composed of Rodan Parrocha, Wendell Bendoval, and Arturo Roxas recommended the filing of charges in November 2020.
The cases stemmed from fabricated buy-bust operations that were said to have taken place between Feb. 14 and 18, 2020.
Witnesses said the unsuspecting victims were taken because they happened to pass by the area where a buy-bust operation was ongoing.
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2021/09/01/2124101/pnp-chief-directs-probe-cops-doing-viral-motorcycle-stunts |
The chief of the Philippine National Police directed an investigation into an incident in Zambales wherein riders, referred to in the viral video as policemen, were doing dangerous motorcycle stunts while traversing the road.
The video, which has since gone viral on Facebook, shows two people appearing to be lawmen doing dangerous stunts along a highway. They were seen doing the stunts even on the opposite lane, unmindful of vehicles along their way.
Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said Wednesday that he tasked the concerned police units to determine if the two riders are indeed policemen.
“After watching this viral video, I immediately assigned Police Brig. Gen. Val de Leon, [Regional Director of Police Regional Office 3] as well as the Director of the Highway Patrol Group to identify, investigate and impose appropriate punishment on these sweet potato riders,” said Eleazar.
"My order includes finding out if these two are police officers."
He said this action could not only endanger their lives but also of other motorists on the road. Eleazar also stressed that their action was a violation of road regulations.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152199 |
The Department of Tourism (DOT) in Eastern Visayas finds it worrisome to let local government units assume some tourism-related functions in 2022 due to the practice of replacing trained officers with "unqualified" ones every election year.
"This a top concern as the tourism department brace for devolution of tourism programs to local governments starting next year," DOT Eastern Visayas regional director Karina Rosa Tiopes said on Wednesday.
“We are changing tourism officers after every elections. That is the challenge since some trained tourism officers are replaced after three years by someone who has zero knowledge about tourism,” Tiopes told the Philippine News Agency.
Tiopes said aside from incompetent tourism officers, also hounding the implementation of local tourism programs is the absence of office space and lack of or no personnel assigned to assist a tourism officer.
“There is a ‘one-man show’ provincial tourism office in the region. No staff has been assigned to assist him. Sometimes, he is given other tasks by the governor not related to tourism,” Tiopes added.
To somehow address this challenge, the tourism department will come up with a guidebook for local government units in support of devolution transition plans.
LGU officials replace local DOT officials with incompetent people.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152342 |
A barangay captain in Agusan del Sur was arrested for his alleged involvement in illegal logging activities in the area.
Brig. Gen. Romeo Caramat Jr., the director of Police Regional Office in Caraga (PRO-13) identified the arrested village chief as Gabby Natinga, 43, of Barangay San Pedro, Prosperidad town.
“Natinga and his cohort, Jhonny Boy Bagnol, 29, were arrested Wednesday in a joint anti-illegal logging operation conducted in Purok 3, Barangay Crossing Luna, Esperanza town,” Caramat said.
Confiscated from the suspects were 420 pieces of illegally gathered Lauan lumber products with an estimated volume of 5,880 board feet and total market value estimated at PHP176,400, Caramat said.
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