Retards in the Government 228

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

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1156099

The Army’s 6th Infantry Division (6ID) has lauded military units for the recovery of high-powered guns near the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in this town on Friday. 

This was after Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, the 6ID commander, directed the 90th Infantry Battalion (90IB) and all other military units in the province to remain on alert for possible retaliatory attacks. 

At about 2 p.m. Friday, elements of 90IB, while manning a checkpoint at the entrance of the municipal hall grounds here, noticed two firearms displayed in plain view at the back of a pick-up vehicle while approaching the government compound. 

When asked, the driver and his passenger failed to present documents legalizing the possession and transport of high-powered guns. 

More firearms were recovered inside the passenger’s side of the vehicle. 

Soldiers recovered four M16 A1 rifles, 27 long magazines, one short magazine, 850 rounds of 5.56 ammunition, three bandoleers, and one caliber .45 pistol with six magazines and 45 rounds of ammunition. 

“Our troopers noticed that the vehicle occupants were uneasy,” Uy said. 

Uy, also the commander of Joint Task Force Central, said the driver and owner of the Toyota pick-up truck was identified as Benjamin Mantol alias Datu Mama, the village chief of Talitay, Pikit, North Cotabato.

A village chief was found with a stash of illegal weapons in his vehicle.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1156182

A police officer who was confined in a hospital here due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) succumbed to a gunshot wound after he accidentally shot himself on Sunday morning, police reported.

 

Lt. Col. Criselda de Guzman, city police chief, identified the fatality as S/Sgt. Reynante Menia, 43, resident of Zone 1, Barangay Villa Joson this city and detailed at Rizal police station in Rizal town.

 

De Guzman said Menia was admitted at the Ospital ng Lungsod ng San Jose after being tested positive for coronavirus on Oct. 8.

 

"Menia died on the spot after he accidentally shot himself, while cleaning his caliber 9mm Pietro Beretta pistol which he regularly does," investigators said.

 

Police said it was Menia's wife who called the duty nurse after hearing a gunshot.

 

"The lifeless body of the victim was then found with a gunshot wound on his head," police added.

Another cop accidentally kills himself with his own gun.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1156341

Members of the anti-scalawag unit of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have arrested a police officer for alleged extortion in an entrapment operation in San Mateo, Rizal on Monday.

In a statement Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Flynn Dongbo, chief of the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG), identified the suspect as Staff Sgt. June Angeles, who is assigned at the San Mateo Municipal Police Station (MPS).

Angeles was arrested in an entrapment at the San Mateo MPS in Barangay Gitnang Bayan after receiving marked money from the complainant, Jenny Natividad, in exchange for a certificate of detention for her husband.

The issuance of a certificate of detention is free of charge.

Recovered from the suspect were two PHP500 bills used as marked money, a 9-mm pistol, and various ammunition.

Another PNP officer busted for extortion.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/12/21/pnp-dismisses-cop-over-death-of-teen-with-autism

The Philippine National Police (PNP) said Tuesday it approved the dismissal of a Valenzuela City cop over the death of a teenager with autism in an operation last May.

"I have signed the order for the dismissal from the service of [Police Senior Master Sergeant Christopher] Salcedo for grave misconduct and less grave irregularity in the performance of duty," PNP Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said in a statement.

Salcedo was administratively charged for the death of 18-year-old Edwin Arnigo, who was shot in an anti-illegal gambling (tupada) operation in Valenzuela last May 23.

PNP officer finally dismissed for shooting an autistic man back in May.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/10/12/2133634/pnp-pampanga-cop-accused-rape-restrictive-custody-pending-probe-findings

The police officer accused of raping a female motorcycle rider in Pampanga has been disarmed and placed under restrictive custody where he will remain pending the results of an internal probe, the Philippine National Police said Tuesday. 

PNP in a statement said it received reports that a Police Staff Sgt. Robin Mangaga flagged the victim at a checkpoint in Mabalacat, Pampanga on October 8. She admitted to forgetting her driver's license but claims she was raped rather than sanctioned according to traffic laws. 

She also said the motorcycle was only returned to her after she was raped and that she immediately sought the assistance of her co-workers in filing a complaint against Mangaga.

Eleazar vowed that Mangaga would be dismissed and face criminal charges if the accusation proves true. 

"It is sad and frustrating that despite our repeated warnings and implementation of reforms in our organization, there are still some who openly abuse the power given to them by the people," he said in Filipino. 

PNP officer accused of raping a woman at a checkpoint.

https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/10/12/latest-stories/basilan-poll-officer-daughter-survive-ambush/1818128

Gunmen ambushed an election officer and his daughter in the Muslim province of Basilan just three days after politicians filed their candidacies for next year's polls, reports said Tuesday.

Reports said Aknam Hasim was driving home with his daughter when armed men attacked them Monday evening in the capital city of Isabela. The duo were both wounded in the shooting.

No individual or group claimed responsibility for the attack and the motives in the ambush of Aknam, the election office of Maluso town, is still unknown.

It was unclear how the gunmen managed to sneak into the city and carry out the daring attack. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has not released any statement and neither was Aknam's family.

The ambush came a day after security forces recovered two improvised explosives in Sumisip town. The province is a hot spot for violence during election time.

An election officer and his daughter were wounded in an attack in an area known to be violent during election season.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/13/21/cop-may-be-dismissed-for-illegal-sale-of-tocilizumab

A policeman may be dismissed after he was caught illegally selling tocilizumab in an operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation.

Police Staff Sergeant Ariel Yalung was arrested in Quezon City for illegally trying to sell the anti-inflammatory off-label drug used to treat COVID-19 patients at P95,000. 

Its suggested price is P25,000.

A Department of Healh official said in September that the supply of tocilizumab will remain low until the end of the ye

PNP officer caught illegally selling tocilizumab faces dismissal from the service.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1156623

Police authorities here have launched a manhunt against a village watchman who shot dead a farmer in Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat.

Col. Tom Tuzon, Sultan Kudarat provincial police director, condemned the act of the village watchman, Ronnie Catroverde, who was a member of Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT) in Paitan village in the area.

“(The) BPAT members, as trained force multipliers and strong partners of the police in the maintenance of peace and order, are expected to adhere to the existing laws and display good behavior,” Tuzon said in a statement on Thursday.

“We condemn his act and he must be charged,” he added.

Lt. Col. Joel Fuerte, provincial police community affairs development unit chief, said the initial investigation showed that Catroverde shot Junmar Sarad, 44, farmer, also of Paitan village, after a heated argument at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

A village watchman who is part of a crew which acts as "force multipliers and strong partners of the police in the maintenance of peace and order" shot a man dead after a heated argument.