Sleeping Cavite cops sacked, charged

CAMP GEN. PANTALEON GARCIA, IMUS, Cavite – Four police officers were charged with neglect of duty and relieved from their posts after they were spotted by their own superior sleeping while on duty inside police precincts/outposts in Bacoor City and Imus City.

Senior Superintendent William M. Segun, Cavite Police Provincial Office (PPO) director, ordered the filing of the administrative charges against the four police officers from BacoorPanapaan and Longos precincts and Imus-Daanghari Road outpost after he relieved them from their posts for their conduct.

Segun, in a surprise pre-dawn visit, caught the officers off guard and sound- ly sleeping or just rose from slumber in their posts on Tuesday.

Segun took photographs of the officers in awkward positions with his mobile phone.

The photographs showed one officer in uniform in deep slumber on a cushioned folding bed and another officer, who had just awakened, seated with a woman.

Segun scolded the erring officers who were supposed to be on duty in the wee hours of the morning.

He had also asked them to submit a written explanation as to why they were sleeping while on job.

The PPO commander made predawn inspections to find out what his officers and men were up to at night and early morning.

Segun had named and confirmed his actions against the sleeping officers on Wednesday, during the first command visit of Chief Superintendent Edward E. Carranza, newly designated director of the Police Regional Office IV-A or the Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon (Calabarzon) Police Command.

Carranza and Segun stressed that police officers in the region must show good performance and be well-disciplined.