Bato sends 4 cops to Basilan for kidnapping

Four policemen from Makati City arrested for allegedly kidnapping a businessman will be reassigned to Basilan province, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said yesterday.

“If they will be able to post bail for their criminal case, we will reassign them there,” he said in a chance interview at Camp Crame.

In a separate radio interview, Dela Rosa said he “can’t kill these people right away” no matter how angry he is “because we have laws.”

Police Officers 2 Harley Garcera and Clarence Maynes and PO1s Tim Galzote and Jeffrey Cañete, assigned with the Makati police intelligence unit, were apprehended by the PNP Counter-Intelligence Task Force (CITF) in an entrapment operation in Pasay on Tuesday and were charged with kidnapping.

They allegedly snatched a businessman from Pasay City and extorted money in exchange for his release.

The incident resulted in the relief of Makati police chief Senior Superintendent Dionisio Bartolome.

The PNP sacked the policemen along with their superior, Chief Inspector Oscar Pagulayan.