Entire Pasay police precinct sacked

For pocketing Chinese rob victim’s money

All 35 members of the Police Community Precinct (PCP) 3 in Pasay City, including its commander, were relieved from their posts yesterday after they allegedly pocketed the money recovered from two robbery suspects last month.

Director Oscar Albayalde, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), said the policemen were reassigned to the holding center of the Southern Police District under Chief Superintendent Tomas Apolinario.

PCP 3 head Chief Inspector Remedios Terte will be transferred to the NCRPO Regional Personnel Holding Administrative Unit, Albayalde said.

“They were relieved to prevent them from influencing the outcome of the investigation. Once cleared of the charges, they will be reassigned to another precinct of the Pasay police,” Albayalde said.

Investigation showed that a Chinese man sought police help after losing 10,000 euros, $7,000 and P26,000 to five teenagers during a

“salisi” operation in August. Two of the suspects were arrested by police.

The mother of one of the suspects returned $1,000 and thousands of pesos to the PCP 3.

The Chinese complainant alleged that the police officers pocketed the missing euros and cash, prompting Albayalde to relieve the entire police unit.

Apolinario said Terte would be replaced by Chief Inspector Marvin Oloan as PCP 3 head.

Apolinario tapped 34 personnel of the SPD public safety battalion to replace the relieved police officers.

Last week, Albayalde ordered the relief of the entire Caloocan police force amid public outrage over the killings of Kian Loyd delos Santos and Carl Angelo Arnaiz.

The last complaint before Albayalde’s order was against 13 Caloocan policemen who illegally raided a house and took cash, cell phones and watches.

The incident was caught on closed-circuit television camera.

At least 100 police officers from the NCRPO are willing to be deployed in Caloocan City to fill the vacancies in three police precincts, according to Albayalde.

He is confident they can gather at least 1,000 policemen to replace the sacked Caloocan operatives.

“The policemen to be reassigned to the Caloocan police will undergo background investigation while others were highly recommended by their superiors. We expect to fill the vacancies in all seven PCPs and other units of the city police force this week,” Albayalde said.

He added the first 100 would be assigned to PCP 2, 4 and 7.