PNP not keen on shipping errant cops to Mindanao

August 8, 2018

Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Oscar Albayalde is not receptive to sending to Mindanao more than 100 police officers who were scolded by President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday.

“We will no longer do that because they are facing criminal and administrative charges,” Albayalde said Wednesday in a text message.

Albayalde said the PNP will resolve the policemen's administrative cases and make sure punishment is imposed, including dismissal from the service to those with grave offenses.

“We will expedite their administrative cases and mete them with the appropriate punishments,” he said.

Duterte cursed and threatened to kill alleged police scalawags whom he met on Tuesday in Malacanang.

A total of 102 police officers were presented before him consisting of 87 from the National Capital Region, eight from Calabarzon (Cavite Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) and Central Luzon regions.

Last May, Albayalde has reassigned to Sulu the 11 policemen who bashed him on the Facebook page “Buhay Lespu” because of his habit of berating police officers who have committed offenses such as sleeping on the job.

The PNP  said the transfer is not a form of punishment but to prevent them from influencing other policemen.

Senior Superintendent Benigno Durana Jr., PNP spokesman, the PNP leadership has put a stop to reassigning errant police officers as it is counter-productive.

“If we reassign them, we are just transferring the problem,” he said in news briefing in Camp Crame.

Durana said is putting programs such as spiritual seminars for cops that can still be reformed. “Not all are incorrigible. Some are salvageable. We must give a chance to those that can be salvaged,” said Durana. DMS