Biyaheng Totoo: Overpriced P5.7-M police training facility in Tawi-Tawi unused after 10 years

In the third episode of Biyaheng Totoo, GMA reporter Marisol Abdurahman traveled to Tawi-Tawi province, where she discovered a P5.7 million police training facility that has gone unused for over a decade. [Click her to view more episodes of Biyaheng Totoo] In 2006, the Ombudsman filed graft and corruption charges against the Philippine National Police official who had been in charge of the facility’s construction in 2001. It was later found out that the facility had been overpriced by P2.5 million. It had also been declared completed, even though construction was unfinished. The facility could have been used to provide much needed training for Tawi-Tawi's local police. Many of them are unable to get promoted unless they can shoulder the costs of studying at police schools in Cotabato or Zamboanga cities. View a slideshow of photos taken during Marisol's Tawi-Tawi trip: Click here to view in fullscreen