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(Eagle News)–The joint Senate panel looking into the issue of ninja cops has cited in contempt another policeman behind the 2013 Pampanga raid found to have been irregular. It was Senate President Tito Sotto who motioned for SP01 Ronald Santos to be cited in contempt for his failure to appeare in Wednesday’s hearing. Senate minority leader Franklin Drilon and Senator Richard Gordon seconded the motion. The Senate panel had subpoenaed Santos, who was among 13 […]
(Eagle News)–“Onti lang naman napunta sa akin diyan.” This was what then-Brigadier General Rudy Lacadin said Oscar Albayalde, then the Pampanga provincial director, told him during a phone call sometime after the irregular raid in Mexico, Pampanga. Lacadin, who was then the deputy director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, said Albayalde called him after learning he had been tasked by then-CIDG chief Benjamin Magalong to conduct a probe into the raid led by […]
(Eagle News)–Even before the 2013 raid in Mexico, Pampanga, there were already reports of several policemen recycling illegal drugs. This was confirmed by former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong, who said he received reports then-Chief Insp. Bienvenido Reydado and his men, who were assigned in Angeles, were also involved in the illegal activities. He said he received the information from two of Reydado’s men, who said they could no longer take what […]
(Eagle News)–The joint Senate committee looking into the Good Conduct Time Allowance law resumed its hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 9, with two former high-ranking police officials who probed the irregular 2013 Pampanga raid attending the hearing. Former Central Luzon command chief Raul Petrasanta, who ordered former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong to hold the probe into the raid conducted by the 13 policemen, and Alan Purisima, then the Philippine National Police chief, […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will name the two police officials who are still “playing with illegal drugs.” According to Senator Bong Go, “hintayin po natin ang resulta ng imbestigasyon ng (Department of the Interior and Local Government) at (Department of Justice).” “Managot (ang) dapat managot,” he said. The President had said in a speech during the Valdai forum in Russia that two police generals were still engaged in illegal drug activities. He made the remark […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde believes the two police generals President Rodrigo Duterte said were still “playing with illegal drugs” were in an old drug list existing during the time of his predecessor, now-Senator Ronald dela Rosa. Albayalde made the remark in an interview over radio dzmm on Saturday, Oct. 5, as he denied feeling alluded to by the President’s statement. The Palace has said the President found the two generals were protecting […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will wait for the results of the probe of Congress into the issue of “ninja cops” before taking any formal action. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who issued a statement on Saturday, Oct. 5. According to Panelo, as for the two generals Duterte said were “playing with drugs,” the President “will wait for the recommendation of the DILG [Department of the Interior and Local Government] Secretary when he […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Friday, Oct. 4, said he believes his name was dragged in the ninja cops controversy because of politics. “I am retiring. Who’s the next PNP chief here?” he asked in an interview over CNN Philippines. Albayalde said this could also be a way to discredit whomever he will endorse as the next top policeman. Albayalde is slated to retire in November. “They will destroy my reputation, my […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Oct. 3, said two generals are “still playing with drugs.” In his speech at the Valdai forum in Russia, the President did not identify the generals nor did he say if they were from the military or the police. The President made the revelation amid issues hounding the Philippine National Police, including its chief Oscar Albayalde. Albayalde has been accused of intervening in the cases filed against 13 policemen […]
(Eagle News)–What have you done as Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief? This was the question posed by PDEA chief director-general Aaron Aquino to former PDEA director-general Dionisio Santiago, who had urged him to resign over the issue on ninja cops. Aquino particularly asked Santiago what he had done on the problem, which he himself revealed during a Senate committee on finance hearing on the PDEA budget. Aquino had said some law enforcers were also engaged […]
(Eagle News)–“You dropped the ball big time.” This was the stinging rebuke made on Thursday, Oct. 3, by Senator Richard Gordon to Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde, who is in hot water over what has been described as an irregular drug raid conducted by his men in Pampanga in 2013. Gordon lashed out at Albayalde during the hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law after the then-provincial director of Pampanga said there was […]
(Eagle News)–The police report on the 2013 Pampanga drug raid conducted by the 13 policemen subsequently ordered dismissed was only “full of lies.” This is according to retired Brigadier General Manuel Gaerlan, who was the deputy director for operations of Central Luzon when the raid led by then-Col. Rodney Baloyo and 12 of his men was conducted. Gaerlan said he had been tasked by then-Central Luzon police director Raul Petrasanta to check on the supposed […]
