MPD relieves entire unit over extortion activities
01/07/2009 | 12:45 AM
MANILA, Philippines – Manila Police District director Roberto Rosales relieved the entire unit of the city’s District Anti-Illegal Drug (DAID) amid reports that policemen assigned in the group had been involved in bribery and extortion activities.
In an exclusive report Tuesday on GMA’s primetime news 24 Oras, reporter Cesar Apolinario said Rosales also filed administrative cases against the 20 members of the unit.
The report said the dismissal of the entire unit happened last December when he got hold of a cellular phone from one of the cops in DAID wherein the illegal activities were recorded in text messages.
Apolinario said the usual extortion victims of the group were suspected pusher and users.
Rosales refused to name the relieved policemen, but he said he wanted to show that he means business in his campaign against illegal drugs in Manila.
“Ayaw nating mangyari na ang yung mga nahuhuli e, talagang nabibigyan ng second chance dahil binabangketa ang kaso," Rosales told Aponario.
“…nilinis natin ang rank di ba?, kapag nililinis mo ipapakita mo ngayon, try to deliver the message to everyone that we mean business. Bukod sa ni-relieved namin kinasuhan namin sila," the police officer added.
Rosales was the former police provincial director of Quezon City when former Mayor Romy Mitra was apprehended for allegedly escorting a drug shipment. - Fidel Jimenez, GMANews.TV
In an exclusive report Tuesday on GMA’s primetime news 24 Oras, reporter Cesar Apolinario said Rosales also filed administrative cases against the 20 members of the unit.
The report said the dismissal of the entire unit happened last December when he got hold of a cellular phone from one of the cops in DAID wherein the illegal activities were recorded in text messages.
Apolinario said the usual extortion victims of the group were suspected pusher and users.
Rosales refused to name the relieved policemen, but he said he wanted to show that he means business in his campaign against illegal drugs in Manila.
“Ayaw nating mangyari na ang yung mga nahuhuli e, talagang nabibigyan ng second chance dahil binabangketa ang kaso," Rosales told Aponario.
“…nilinis natin ang rank di ba?, kapag nililinis mo ipapakita mo ngayon, try to deliver the message to everyone that we mean business. Bukod sa ni-relieved namin kinasuhan namin sila," the police officer added.
Rosales was the former police provincial director of Quezon City when former Mayor Romy Mitra was apprehended for allegedly escorting a drug shipment. - Fidel Jimenez, GMANews.TV
