THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE continue its campaign against rogue members following the arrest of several officers accused of rape and the killing of a senior police official in a drug sting operation recently.
PNP Director General Oscar Albayalde said: “Tayo ay nalulungkot kung bakit hanggang ngayon meron pa rin tayo nakukuha or nahuhuli or minsan na eengkwentro na miyembro ng PNP na nai-involve sa illegal activities particularly sa illegal na droga. Although we want to assure the public, the Filipino people na hindi po tayo titigil hanggat maubos sa aming hanay itong mga tiwaling pulis.”
He said some 1,700 cops are on the police counter-intelligence watch list suspected as involved in illegal activities.
Among the police officers killed in counter-intelligence operations were Senior Insp. Raymond Hortezuela who was slain in Mandaue City in Cebu; PO2 Gemmo Meneses who was killed by police operatives in Morong, Rizal; PO3 Marco Hashim Alegre who was killed in a buy-bust in Occidental Mindoro; and PO2 Ian Rey Abitona who was killed in Infanta, Quezon. PO3 Ronald Bernardo and PO2 Maria Oliver Olaso were killed during a buy-bust in Barangay Ayala in Zamboanga City. (Christopher Lloyd Caliwan)
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