Tag: PNP internal cleansing

Eleazar orders relief of entire CIDG-QC unit over P3-million extortion allegation

(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered the relief of the entire Quezon City unit of the  Criminal Investigation and Detection Group over an alleged P3-million extortion. In a statement, the PNP said Eleazar ordered Police Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, Director of the CIDG to also disarm and put the policemen under restrictive custody while an investigation into the demand made to businessman Adrian Dominic Ang was ongoing. Ang was […]

Gatchalian says he expects “concrete accomplishments” from PNP’s “chilling” internal cleansing

(Eagle News) — Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, Aug. 1, said he expected “concrete accomplishments” from what Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said was the organization’s “chilling” internal cleansing. In a statement, Gatchalian said he expected Albayalde to present these when he appears before Congress to defend the PNP’s budget. “General Albayalde had better make good on his word,” he said, noting that the kidnapping-for-ransom incident  involving “disgraced cops on the wrong side of the […]

Incoming PNP Chief Albayalde to focus on PNP internal cleansing, drug war

By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Incoming Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said he would focus on internal cleansing in the PNP once he assumes the post on April 18. In a television interview on Friday, Albayalde said he would “put responsibility on the ground” so that if commanders did not discipline their men,  “merong kalalagyan sila.” “Mangilan ngilan lang naman sila (police scalawags),” Albayalde said. So far, he said he does not have […]