Eleazar sacks entire Las Piñas anti-drugs unit

National Capital Region Police Office Director, Chief Supt. Guillermo Eleazar holds a press conference on the authorities’ preparations for President Rodrigo Duterte’s third State of the Nation Address on July 23. /Mar Gabriel/Eagle News/

(Eagle News)–National Capital Region Police Office Director Guillermo Eleazar has relieved the entire anti-drug unit of the Las Pinas police.

Eleazar made the move to relieve the more than 30 police officers, including the unit chief, after some operatives allegedly demanded money in exchange for the release of a drug suspect.

Operatives of the Southern Police District failed to arrest the four policemen involved in the crime in an entrapment operation, but managed to nab a minor allegedly involved in the same.

It was the minor who revealed the identities of the four policemen.