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| Rotten Cops; Scalawags in the PNP | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 10 2008, 02:55 PM (2,208 Views) | |
| saver111 | Jul 10 2008, 02:55 PM Post #1 |
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I was about to post this at the SAF thread but felt it would be a shame for the unit as a whole. Cop major, driver held for kidnap By Non Alquitran Thursday, July 10, 2008 A ranking officer of the Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police and his driver were arrested by elements of the Police Anti-Crime Emergency Response (PACER) for alleged kidnapping. Chief Inspector Exequiel Cuativer, commanding officer of the SAF training school in Sto. Domingo in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, and his driver are presently undergoing tactical interrogation at the PACER headquarters at Camp Crame. Cuativer’s arrest has been a hot topic for days at the SAF headquarters at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City. Sketchy reports showed that Cuativer, a member of the PNP Academy Class ’95, allegedly headed a group of highly trained active police and Army personnel behind last week’s kidnapping of a resident of a posh subdivision in Metro Manila. Initially, the group allegedly demanded a P20-million ransom for the safe release of the victim. There are reports that the cell phone of Cuativer’s child was allegedly used in the ransom negotiations. PACER has kept mum on the arrest of Cuativer and his driver. However, a police general told The STAR that Cuativer and his driver were arrested last Saturday by PACER agents at the vicinity of the SAF training school in Sta. Rosa. Cuativer’s wife, also a police officer and a PNPA graduate, reported to the Sta. Rosa police that heavily armed men had kidnapped her husband. Cuativer, according to the police general, is known among Army and police special forces because he was involved in their training. PACER agents are presently conducting follow-up operations to get the other active police and Army personnel involved in the group’s alleged kidnapping activities. http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Nation&p...&aid=2008070938 |
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| Fmr TOPP Awardee 82'PNP | Jul 10 2008, 06:55 PM Post #2 |
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Very interesting to know about some missing facts. Where was the victim hidden and how did it come to light ? It is another blow to the PNP. However, we will give them the benefit of the doubt as the case is still under investigative process. And it's worth keeping abreast of the development of the investigation. |
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| saver111 | Jul 11 2008, 07:57 PM Post #3 |
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Police officer, 3 others face numerous complaints of illegal recruitment, estafa GMANews.TV GMANews.TV - Friday, July 11 BUTUAN CITY, Philippines - A police colonel and three others are now facing charges of large-scale illegal recruitment and estafa for allegedly promising non-existent jobs abroad and collecting fees from their hapless victims. Senior Inspector Nelly Villagracia, spokesperson of the Caraga Police Regional Office said seven victims filed charges against Senior Superintendent Camilo Batulan, his wife Flor Campos, Army Staff Sgt. Arleene Betoy, and Carmelita Balucan. The National Bureau of Investigation regional office in Caraga formally lodged the criminal charges before Butuan City Prosecutors Office last June 27. The NBI charged Batulan and his wife of committing six counts of illegal recruitment and three counts of Estafa, while Betoy was charged for three counts of illegal recruitment and three counts of estafa. Balucan, on the other hand, was charged of committing three counts of illegal recruitment and one count of estafa. Aside from these complaints, Batulan - who has been relieved from his post as chief of the Regional Investigation and Detective Management (RIDM) pending investigation - and Betoy are also facing administrative cases. “Administrative charges have already been filed against Col. Batulan and the Army Staff Sergeant Arleene Betoy of the 30th IB Philippine Army aside from the criminal charges they are now facing", Villagarcia said. The NBI also said investigators are also mulling to file additional charges of human trafficking or violation of Republic 6632 against the suspects. The victims alleged that a recruitment firm being run by the suspects collected from them various amounts of money ranging from P1,000 to P15,000 from February to March this year for placement to various jobs abroad. However, the complainants said that they did not get the promised jobs and that the suspects failed to refund the victims' payment. The NBI also noted that the recruitment firm was not registered with the Philippine Overseas Employment Association (POEA). In the interview, Villagracia also said complainants from as far as Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental and nearby provinces have started to flock to the regional police office here on Friday and at the NBI Caraga Regional office after learning that fellow victims have surfaced and filed complaints against the suspects. No warrants of arrest have so far been issued against the four suspects who remain at large. - GMANews.TV http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/gma/20080711...ou-ce44f36.html Ranks seems going up...who's next? 
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| saver111 | Jul 11 2008, 08:50 PM Post #4 |
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A follow-up on the SAF Major's case. Business angle eyed in kidnap-slay of businessman, driver in Cavite 07/11/2008 | 01:36 PM MANILA, Philippines – Investigators are looking into a business dispute as the motive of four suspects - including a former Cavite vice mayor and a policeman - for allegedly abducting and killing a former pilot and his driver in Cavite. Senior Superintendent Leonardo Espina, chief of the Police Anti-Crime and Emergency Response (Pacer), presented to the media the four suspects who are accused of killing retired pilot Demosthenes Cañete, 67, and his driver Allan Garay, 26, in Cavite on June 27. Espina said the four suspects allegedly abducted the two victims in Brgy. Sabang, Dasmariñas town, and demanded a P20-million ransom from Cañete’s family. The suspects are: • Former Dasmariñas, Cavite Vice Mayor Victor Carungcong, 56; • Chief Inspector Exequiel Cautiver, a 36-year-old training director of the Special Action Force School in Sta. Rosa Laguna; • Alejandro Entolizo Jr, a village watchman in Makati City; and • Gary Pateo, a pedicab driver, also from Makati City.a Investigation showed that the former vice mayor has allegedly been trying to take over Cañetes’ emission testing center and drug diagnostics clinic in Dasmariñas. Carungcong, at one point, even fired his gun in the establishment after security guards denied him entry. “These facts establish the strongest motive of Carungcong to get Cañete out of his way," Espina said. The police set up an entrapment operation in Malibay, Pasay City on Friday last week, the day Canete’s relatives scheduled to pay the ransom, which at that time has already been trimmed down by the suspects to P973,000. Entolizo and Pateo were collared in the said operation. A few hours after his two accomplices’ arrest, Cautiver was likewise captured. Cautiver, who is a graduate of the PNP Academy Batch 1996, pointed to Carungcong as the mastermind in the abduction. The former pilot’s body was recovered Tuesday last week in Pampanga province, but it was only positively identified as Cañete last Monday. Although Cautiver had confirmed that they have also killed Cañete’s driver, the latter’s body have yet to be recovered. During the briefing, Espina said that while the four arrested men do not belong to any kidnap-for-ransom group in the PNP’s watchlist, investigators “are (still) closely looking at the background of the suspects." The police are still conducting a manhunt operation to capture four more suspects in the abduction-slay incident, including the two identified suspects namely PO1 Dondon Abogado and Mariano de Leon Jr alias “Spider." In a follow-up operation on Thursday night, policemen went to De Leon ’s house in Imus, Cavite, where they discovered 68 assorted firearms and ammunitions. De Leon was not in the house when the policemen arrived but his relatives said they have been storing the firearms because the family runs a security agency. Complaints of kidnap for ransom and two counts of murder are expected to be filed by the police against the suspects. - Mark Merueñas, GMANews.TV http://www.gmanews.tv/story/106386/Busines...river-in-Cavite In another TV News story, it was stated that the victims were already dead and the kidnappers still demanded ransom, this time to about a million only. Maybe this was a case of a gun for hire with the ransom as payment. |
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| Fmr TOPP Awardee 82'PNP | Jul 12 2008, 07:41 AM Post #5 |
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So far there are now 3 publicized bad news for the PNP in just only a month, ranging from kidnapping, murder, robbery, torture and illegal recruitment not to mention the other less serious offenses in different parts of the country. This picture alone tells a message that the PNP is in a bad light as it has been for some time. It needs an overhaul. |
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| flipzi | Jul 13 2008, 01:36 PM Post #6 |
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His rank is already Chief Inspector (Major in the military) and he's from the PNPA. He could have earned a lot more if he just stayed clean. There's AFPSLAI as well. It's just a matter of good financial management and discipline. Weird. That's a clear example of insatiable greed. I call it stupidity in its clearest sense. |
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| Fmr TOPP Awardee 82'PNP | Jul 14 2008, 07:29 AM Post #7 |
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This PNP Officer is among those classified as criminal-minds before he found himself having a room in law enforcement. It could have been detected if there has been a thorough and rigid background and psychiatric test. Maybe if there was, it was only a matter of formality to fill up the requirements. It can't be disregarded that corruption in the police oftentimes starts from the recruitment. |
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| saver111 | Nov 6 2008, 07:55 PM Post #8 |
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I've always see cops on motorcycles not wearing the required safety helmets. And worse, you could see them apprehending motorcyclists not wearing one. I've wanted to start a photo thread, "Law Enforcers, Law Breakers" long time ago, with this cases of motorcyle cops without helmets. But hey, the QCPD took noticed and QC cracks down on cops riding motorcycles sans helmet 11/06/2008 | 07:26 PM MANILA, Philippines - The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) on Thursday reminded its forces to always wear helmets when driving a motorcycle, warning that offenders and their immediate superiors would be punished. QCPD chief Senior Superintendent Magtanggol Gatdula assured that motorcycle-riding policemen insisting on plying the roads without a helmet would be arrested and slapped with a charge of “less grave neglect of duty." Offenders face suspension from work and forfeiture of one to two months of their salaries. Commanding officers or the direct superiors of erring cops would be charged with “simple neglect of duty" and also face suspension. However, salary forfeiture would only cover one to 30 days. Gatdula said police personnel should treat the tall order as a reminder rather than as a means to punish them. He stressed that the warning was only devised to ensure the safety of the PNP’s men. Gatdula’s warning came after Metro Manila’s police chief, Director Jefferson Soriano, issued a memorandum saying that policemen are not exempted from the requirement of donning helmets when driving motorbikes. In his memorandum, Soriano said noted that despite a standing traffic rule on wearing helmets for all motorists, he still noticed a number of helmetless policemen on the road. “It has been noted with deep concern that in spite of previous directives, there are still PNP personnel who are not wearing helmets while driving a motorcycle," the memorandum said. - Mark Merueňas, GMANews.TV http://www.gmanews.tv/story/131890/QC-crac...les-sans-helmet I hope the whole PNP implements it especially the TMG. |
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| Fmr TOPP Awardee 82'PNP | Nov 7 2008, 03:56 AM Post #9 |
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This abhorrent behavior boils down to hopeless leadership of the country's premier law enforcement agency. 
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| saver111 | Nov 21 2008, 07:46 PM Post #10 |
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In the news just now. a joint NBI-ISAFP task force have arrested 3 people involved in the sale of firearms to rebels in the South. People involve were from the PNP Logistics based of all places, Camp Crame.
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