Patay bound for Cebu as CIDG’s boss
A Pulitzer Prize-winning report described this police officer as head of the unit that racked up the most number of kills in Quezon City in the first year of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.
He’s now headed for Cebu. Supt. Lito Patay is the new director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Central Visayas. A turnover is expected soon, said his classmate Senior Supt. Royina Garma, who heads the Cebu City Police Office.
When Patay led Quezon City’s Police Station 6, 108 people were killed in operations from July 2016 to June 2017, Reuters reported.
Supt. Lito Patay is the new director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Central Visayas.
He was previously assigned in Region 3 (Central Luzon).
Patay was part of the Philippine National Police Academy class of 1997.
CCPO Director Royina G a r ma said that Patay served Davao for almost 20 years.
“He was chief of police, then he handled several units of the mobile force. And then he was assigned in Metro Manila for more than a year in Quezon City,” Garma said in Tagalog.
According to a Reuters report, Patay used to head Station 6, or Batasan Station, in the Quezon City Police District.
During his stint, it was described as the “deadliest police station” in Quezon City, with 108 deaths from July 2016 to June 2017. /