PNP probes 5 cops in P14-M robbery
Acting Philippine National Police chief Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. ordered the PNP Internal Affairs Service to separately investigate an alleged robbery by five police officers of P14 million in Pampanga.
Police Regional Office Central Luzon (PRO 3) relieved the police officers last Tuesday, while its own investigation was ongoing, after members of the Angeles City Police Station 2 reported them to the authorities through an unsigned letter.
“There will be an investigation and I want this done in the soonest possible time,” Nartatez stressed in the statement.
“If the investigation result would find them liable, I assure our kababayan that all of them would not only be dismissed from the service, they would also go straight to jail,” he added.
The alleged robbery took place on Nov. 25 at the victim’s home in Barangay Santa Cruz, Porac, Pampanga, in which the victim, her family and her guests were forced into a comfort room while the officers supposedly took the cash.
PRO 3 Director Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio Peñones Jr. told reporters in a phone interview earlier on Friday that the regional police will file criminal and administrative cases against the officers allegedly involved in the robbery.
The officers allegedly involved were a police major, a police corporal and two police staff sergeants assigned to the Angeles City Police Station 2, as well as another police corporal assigned to the Zambales Provincial Police Office.
