3 NCRPO officials sacked for underreporting crimes
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Alan Purisima has relieved three chiefs of police in Metro Manila for underreporting crimes in their areas of jurisdiction, an official said yesterday.
n an order effective Oct. , Purisima removed Senior Superintendents Rodolfo lorca of Pasay City, Florendo uibuyen of Mandaluyong City and Arthur Felix Asis of Taguig City from their posts.
The three officials will also face a pre-charge investigation by the PNP’s Directorate for nvestigation and Detective Management (D DM) for underreporting as much as 0 percent of the total number of crimes from January to June this year.
lorca assumed his post on Nov. 10, 01 while uibuyen and Asis took over their posts in January.
“They are now being investigated by the D DM for their lapses. Once they are found guilty, the worst penalty would be dismissal from the police service,” said Deputy Director General Felipe Rojas, the PNP’s deputy chief for operations.
Rojas said it is now up to National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) director Chief Superintendent Marcelo Garbo Jr. to implement the relief order.
More heads to roll
D DM chief Director Don Montenegro earlier recommended the relief of the three city police chiefs and six others, but the latter were “given another chance” after it was found out that they were not yet at their posts when the D DM validated the reports made by their units.
The six officials’ predecessors are facing a pre-charge investigation, Rojas said.
He identified them as Superintendent Jaime Afalla, former Sampaloc, Manila station chief Superintendent Reynaldo Tumalad, former Malate, Manila station chief Senior Superintendent Andre Felix, former Para aque police chief Senior Superintendent Bernard Tambaoan, former San Juan police chief Superintendent Marcelo Pedroso, former chief of the amuning, ue on City police station and Superintendents Ramon Pranada and Ronnie Montejo, former commanders of the Cubao, ue on City police station.
Purisima ordered the D DM to countercheck the crime incidence reports of police units all over the country. Since it was the first time the program was being implemented, he allowed a 30-percent discrepancy in crime incidents reported by police officials and those validated by the D DM.
The D DM reported that the Cubao police station failed to report . percent of crimes in its area the Mandaluyong City police, 1. percent the Pasay City police, .1 percent the Sampaloc station, .4 percent the San Juan City police, 44.4 percent the Malate station, 43 percent the Para aque City police, 41. percent the Taguig City police, 3 . percent and the amuning station, 30.3 percent
Montenegro said majority of the nine police stations did not include in their reports the traffic accidents and the cases handled by the women’s and children protection desks.
“ t was observed that some police stations did not indicate the nature of the cases in the blotters. The records is only limited to narration of facts and in some cases the records are unreadable,” said Montenegro in his four-page report. “Moreover, cases reported in the police blotters which were referred to the barangays are not being monitored.”
Montenegro said the cases recorded in the barangay blotters contributed to an average of 0 percent to the total crime volume that should be reported by a police station.
The unabated dumping of garbage in Manila’s creeks, some of which are “missing,” is the main cause of flooding in the city, Mayor Joseph Estrada said yesterday.
n a speech at the Manila Hotel to mark his first 100 days as Manila mayor, Estrada said Manila generates around , 00 tons of garbage everyday and only 0 percent is collected efficiently while 30 percent goes to canals, creeks and rivers.
The , 10 tons of garbage “clog the drainage pipes and esteros, which used to be effective drainage systems. The disappearance of these creeks has contributed to the metropolitan flood problem,” he said.
Estrada said studies indicate esteros were “kidnapped” either covered by buildings, bridges, roads and other infrastructure.
An example is the Estero de uiapo, which was covered when ue on Boulevard was constructed, he said.
Estrada said he met with officials of the Japan nternational Cooperation Agency to ask them to help repair Manila’s drainage system, which “entails a great deal of money (that) our government does not have.”
Estrada said that a private group, which held the ue on City leg of One Run, One Philippines at the ue on Memorial Circle on Sunday, is cleaning 1 creeks in Manila.
“They started from the Estero de Paco. They have already transformed the esteros of San Miguel, Sampaloc, Santibanes and Aviles into clean waterways,” Estrada said.