Retards in the Government 227

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

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1155291

Anti-drug operatives arrested a contractual government employee who was tagged as a high-value target drug pusher in a buy-bust in a village in Koronadal City on Thursday.

Katryn Gaye Abad, spokesperson of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 12 (Soccsksargen), said in a report on Friday that suspect Jamil Manara Desamito, 40, was nabbed around 11:35 a.m. after selling two large sachets of suspected shabu to an undercover agent.

She said the recovered illegal drugs, which were confirmed in laboratory analysis, weighed 12 grams and were valued at PHP81,600.

The operation was led by agents from PDEA South Cotabato Provincial Office and backed by South Cotabato and Koronadal City police’s drug enforcement operatives.

Abad said the entrapment on Aguinaldo Street in Barangay Sta. Cruz came after a month of intensive surveillance on the illegal activities of the suspect, who worked as a driver in a regional line agency based in Koronadal City.

Abad did not disclose the suspect’s other work-related details based on a request from the agency’s regional head.

“He was already arrested before for the same offense but continued with his illegal activities,” she told PNA in a phone interview on Friday.

A contractual government employee was busted for drug use. He was previously arrested for the same offense. This begs the question of how this man got a job working for the government as a contractual employee. Were there no background checks?

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1155487

A former barangay captain listed as the most wanted person of Zambales was arrested by authorities in a manhunt operation on Sunday. 

In a police report on Monday, Col. Romano V. Cardiño, acting provincial director of the Zambales Police Provincial Office, identified the suspect as Angel Cabbab, 74, a former village chair and resident of Barangay Lucero, San Marcelino, Zambales. 

Cardiño said the suspect was arrested by joint elements of San Marcelino Municipal Police Station, Provincial Intelligence Unit (PIU), 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company, 305th Maneuver Company and Criminal Investigation and Detection Team-Zambales. 

The arrest was carried out by virtue of a warrant for the crime of rape issued by Judge Gemma Theresa B. Hilario-Logronio of Branch 73, Olongapo City on Feb. 7, 2019, with no bail recommended. 

Cardiño said Cabbab is the primary suspect in the rape of a three-year-old girl on Dec. 12, 2018. 

He was then the chairman of Barangay Lucero, San Marcelino, Zambales and went in hiding after the crime.

A former Barangay captain is accused of raping a three-year old girl.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1497193/police-protocols-not-followed-in-many-drug-war-cases-under-doj-review

The DOJ said it will endorse to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 52 cases to determine the criminal liability of some 154 police officers involved in the death of 52 drug.

(From what we saw, many of these cases must be carefully reviewed because it appears that there were processes or what we call police protocols that were not followed.)

What a shocker. This is what many people having been saying for the past 5 years now.