Tuesday, February 14, 2017

44 cops dismissed in Region 8 last year

TACLOBAN CITY, Feb. 13 (PNA) -- Some 44 policemen in Eastern Visayas were dismissed from service in 2016, even before the intensified internal cleansing drive of the Philippine National Police (PNP).

In a report released Monday by the PNP regional office here, 31 police officers lost their jobs due to absence without leave.

The remaining 13 officers were sacked for accepting bribes, illegal possession of firearms, direct assault of an authority, maliciously refraining from instituting prosecution for the punishment of violators, tolerance to the commission of offenses, adultery, and losing government properties entrusted to him for official use.

Chief Insp. Bella Rentuaya, police regional office spokesperson refused to divulge the names and ranks of the dismissed officers.

The PNP is now undergoing internal cleansing upon the order of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Earlier, the President ordered the police to suspend its anti-drug operations and start the war against police scalawags.(PNA)
FPV/SQM/LIZBETH ANN A. ABELLA/EGR

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