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| saver111 | Jan 19 2010, 02:31 PM Post #1 |
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PNP men charged over ‘missing’ firearms By MITCH ARCEO January 18, 2010, 5:22pm Several former and active police officers were charged with malversation of public funds by the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG), in connection with missing firearms and motor vehicles issued to police stations and other units in Maguindanao. Police officers who were charged include P/Supt. Abusama Maguid, former provincial director, Maguindanao Police Provincial Office; retired P/Supt. Mangelen Adam, retired provincial director, Maguindanao Provincial Office; P/Insp. Bona Malampong Tamboka, assigned at Shariff Aguak police station; Senior Police Office 1 Pendulat Sambolawan, of Shariff Aguak police station; Police Officer 1 Warden Legawan, assigned at Maguindanao headquarters; PO1 Samsudin Abdullah, assigned at Datu Saudi Ampatuan Municipal police station. According to the PNP-CIDG, Maguid did not report 35 units of refurbished M-16, 5.56 mm. Armalite rifles worth P66,675 each or a total of P2.33 million. On November 2008, 54 Armalite rifles were turned over to Maguid on November 2008 to be distributed to several municipal stations. The 35 units were part of these 54 Armalite rifles. The PNP-CIDG found out that the subject firearms were not officially entered and recorded in the property book of the Police Regional Office - Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-ARMM) because these were not presented to Zenaida Dajao, the Regional Supply Accountable Officer of the province. Based on the complaint, “demand letters were made by RSAO, PRO-ARMM to P/Supt. Abusama Maguid to return the missing and unaccounted PNP properties but he failed to produce/account of the PNP properties…to the damage and prejudice of the government.” The complaint against the former and active policemen stemmed from the November 23 Maguindanao massacre where 57 civilians were murdered by more than a hundred armed men, allegedly led by Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. Some of the firearms used during the massacre were owned by the PNP. The police and military conducted an inventory of its properties and equipment in ARMM. Afterwards, a search was initiated by the PNP and the military itself to confiscate the other firearms and ammunitions. It was further learned that a 2008 report claiming the firearms were destroyed in a fire at the supply room of the 1508th Provincial Police Mobile Group office at Camp Datu Akilan Ampatuan, Shariff Aguak, Mindanao was false as these firearms were also seized during the raids. http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/239106/pnp-m...issing-firearms Shortages of firearms... loose firearms... used in crimes.
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| Fmr TOPP Awardee 82'PNP | Jan 20 2010, 05:41 AM Post #2 |
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It's getting uglier that the auditing of the police equipment was only done after the massacre. The other police official involved who had already retired should have been made to account during his incumbency, and the scam could have been discovered earlier. The citizens of this country is already tired of all these unsavory details of irregularities. The system really stinks.
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