{"id":198089,"date":"2019-01-17T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=198089"},"modified":"2019-01-17T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T07:06:15","slug":"prrd-castigates-sacked-bacolod-police-execs-over-drug-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/17\/prrd-castigates-sacked-bacolod-police-execs-over-drug-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD castigates sacked Bacolod police execs over drug allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during the unveiling of the marker for the Mella Hotel Las Pi\u00f1as located at the C5 Extension in Barangay Pulang Lupa, Las Pi\u00f1as City on December 13, 2018. REY BANIQUET\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA — President Rodrigo R. Duterte has castigated relieved Bacolod police chief Senior Supt. Francis Ebreo and four other cops over their involvement in the illegal drug trade, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo confirmed that the President on Tuesday afternoon met Ebreo, Supt. Allan Macapagal, Supt. Ritchie Yatar, Supt. Nassrudin Tayuan, and Senior Insp. Victor Paulino and expressed frustration over the cops\u2019 failure to determine drug personalities in Bacolod City.<\/p>\n

“PRRD gave the police officers a dressing down and castigated them for allowing the proliferation of illegal drugs to persist in Bacolod,\u201d Panelo said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President particularly expressed his frustration as to why they had no knowledge about the presence of certain personalities in Bacolod who are involved in the illegal drug industry,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Panelo said that the President also reminded the Bacolod cops that they are relieved from their present posts pending their investigation.<\/p>\n

He reiterated that the President\u2019s move to fire the Bacolod cops should serve as a warning to other cops that Duterte will not tolerate law enforcement officials involved in the drug trade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis swift action of the President is a timely warning to other PNP officers that the President will not tolerate incompetence and inefficiency in the police force, especially with respect to the Administration\u2019s crusade versus illegal drugs,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

In a media interview in Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday, Duterte said Ebreo is a protector of illegal drug trade in Bacolod.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it seems to me that at the very least he\u2019s a protector cop. He might not be into the trafficking business but he was really a protector,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe that with all the information available to every chief of police or city police director for that matter assigned in the province that they would not review the record of the province in terms of criminality and drug trafficking. Tingin ko pinag-aralan (I think it was well-studied),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte also mentioned Bacolod City Councilor Ricardo \u2018Cano\u2019 Tan who has been tagged by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) \u201calmost a decade ago to be engaged in trafficking\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Panelo said that while the war on drugs will remain \u201crelentless\u201d, he assured that the President will not only protect cops if they killed in the performance of their duty but will punish those involved in criminal acts like murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take this occasion to reiterate PRRD\u2019s position that he will support policemen resorting to force only when the same is inevitable as when, in the performance of their duties, a suspect sought to be arrested performs aggressive and violent resistance amounting to an actual or imminent threat to their lives and limbs,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde, who bared that the five cops were not on the PNP\u2019s drugs watch list and neither that of the President\u2019s, assured that they will be given due process.<\/p>\n

Panelo acknowledged that while the PNP has yet to determine drug personalities supposedly being protected by the five cops, the President\u2019s personal evidence was enough basis to fire them.<\/p>\n

\u201cSiguro iba ang<\/em>\u00a0source of information\u00a0ni Presidente. Eh Presidente ito, ang dami nitong<\/em>\u00a0tentacles of intelligence (Perhaps the President has a different source of information. The President has \u2018tentacles of intelligence\u2019),\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

Panelo said that Palace will await the results of the investigation being conducted by the PNP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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