{"id":122318,"date":"2017-10-09T04:31:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122318"},"modified":"2017-10-09T04:31:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:31:02","slug":"2-narco-generals-sacked-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/09\/2-narco-generals-sacked-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Two \u2018narco-generals\u2019 sacked\u2014Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107264\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Presidential-Spokesperson-Ernesto-Abella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107264\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Presidential-Spokesperson-Ernesto-Abella.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella. (PCOO photo)\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Presidential-Spokesperson-Ernesto-Abella.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Presidential-Spokesperson-Ernesto-Abella-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Presidential-Spokesperson-Ernesto-Abella-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Presidential-Spokesperson-Ernesto-Abella-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella. (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two Philippine National Police (PNP) officers tagged as \u2018narco-generals\u2019 by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in his July 2016 speech were dismissed from their positions, according to Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a press conference that the President ordered the axing of former Quezon City Police Director Chief Superintendent Edgardo Tinio, and former Metro Manila Police Chief Director Joel Pagdilao.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision, signed by the Executive Secretary [Salvador Medialdea] last Thursday, has found [them] administratively liable for serious neglect of duty and serious irregularity in the performance [of their] duty and have been dismissed,\u201d Abella told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Abella said that the President dismissed them off their services as the aforementioned officers \u2018deliberately refused\u2019 to perform their duties as police officers, which resulted to the proliferation of drug trade in their areas of jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said that the decision was in line with Duterte\u2019s \u2018promise to render the nation crime and corruption-free.\u2019 He added that he is not aware if the two officials would face criminal raps.<\/p>\n<p>In Duterte\u2019s speech in 2016 to the Philippine Air Force, Tinio and Pagdilao were among the five \u2018narco-generals\u2019 named, along with Chief Superintendent Bernardo Diaz, Deputy Director General Marcelino Garbo, and Chief Superintendent Vicente Loot. All five denied the accusations thrown at them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Philippine National Police (PNP) officers tagged as \u2018narco-generals\u2019 by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in his July 2016 speech were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":107264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[26767,26765,14166,26766,26768,7983,14387,21569,26769],"class_list":["post-122318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-bernardo-diaz","tag-edgardo-tinio","tag-ernesto-abella","tag-joel-pagdilao","tag-marcelino-garbo","tag-philippine-national-police","tag-rodrigo-roa-duterte","tag-salvador-medialdea","tag-vicente-loot","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}