(Eagle News) – The Senate will continue its hearing on the so-called “ninja cops” or policemen who recycle by re-selling the illegal drugs they confiscate in operations.
During the hearing, Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, is expected to name these so-called ‘ninja cops”, specifically those earlier named by former Criminal Investigation and Detection chief and now Baguio City mayor Benjamin Magalong in an executive session.
Philippine National Police chief Police General Oscar Albayalde and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino are also invited to attend the hearing.
Albayalde has earlier said that he will attend Tuesday’s hearing to clear his name.
He will be assisted by General Manuel Gaerlan, former Deputy Regional Director for Operations in Pampanga, who conducted the investigation on the issue of ninja cops in Mexico town in Pampanga which had caused the relief in 2014 of Albayalde who was then the PNP provincial chief in Pampanga.
Albayalde was then relieved as Pampanga police director under the doctrine of command responsibility following a controversial anti-illegal drugs operation by police officers in November 2013 in Mexico, Pampanga. The case against Albayalde was, however, dismissed 2017.
“He (General Gaerlan) is willing to testify dahil sya ang naglead nung investigation na yun so that everybody will be clear. Kasi kung ako nagsasabi it’s all parang self serving,” he said earlier.