Drug-linked Negros Occ. top cop questions relief
BACOLOD City – Senior Superintendent William Señoron, director of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo) whom an illegal drug suspect tagged to the illicit trade, was relieved from his post.
Señoron questioned the relief order f rom Chief S uperintendent Renato Gumban, Police Regional Office 18 ( PRO- 18) director. While compelled to follow, he “doubt( s) the wisdom of the order.”
“I do not know what pressure forced our regional director to relieve me,” Señoron said in a radio interview after the order was released on Monday.
“My relief order should have come from Camp Crame ( Philippine National Police national headquarters) because I am a third- level officer,” he said. “What is the legal basis of the regional office?”
Six other officers were relieved: Superintendent Edel Jose Manzano of Nocppo; Superintendent Placido Gentoleo and Police Officer 1 Eric Alcosaba of the Bacolod City Police Office; Chief Inspector Edison Garcia of the PRO-18 Intelligence Division; and Superintendent Antonietto Cañete and Chief Inspector Rocky Desear of the PRO-18.
Except Desear, all t he relieved police officers were na medina supplemental affidavit of former Berya drug group member Ricky Serenio, said Senior Inspector Armilyn Vargas, PRO-18 spokesperson.
Seño ron, Manzano, Gentoleo, Cañete, and Garcia were now detailed at the Regional Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit, while Alcosaba was placed under the Regional Public Safety Battalion.
Desear, who was f rom Manila before he was detailed at the PRO-18, was reassigned at Nocppo.
Gumban assigned Senior