Eastern police, Pasay city top cops sacked after extortion incidents

Rambo Talabong

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Eastern police, Pasay city top cops sacked after extortion incidents
EPD director Chief Superintendent Bernabe Balba and Pasay city police chief Senior Superintendent Noel Flores are fired for command responsibility

MANILA, Philippines – The police chiefs of the Eastern Police District (EPD) and Pasay City have been fired on Wednesday, March 6, after back-to-back extortion incidents involving the entire EPD and Pasay police station anti-drug units.

In a text message to reporters, Metro Manila police chief Director Guillermo Eleazar said EPD director Chief Superintendent Bernabe Balba and Pasay city police chief Senior Superintendent Noel Flores were relieved for command responsibility.

This means that they were sanctioned for the fault of their subordinates whom they were supposed to lead. The instruction, Eleazar said, came from police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde himself.

This comes after the EPD drug enforcement unit (DEU) was accused of extorting P60,000 from the family of a detained drug suspect in exchange for freedom. The same was allegedly done by the Pasay City police station 1 drug enforcement team (SDET), which supposedly asked for P100,000. 

Both units have been sacked, with its members set to face extortion charges. – Rappler.com

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Rambo Talabong

Rambo Talabong covers the House of Representatives and local governments for Rappler. Prior to this, he covered security and crime. He was named Jaime V. Ongpin Fellow in 2019 for his reporting on President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. In 2021, he was selected as a journalism fellow by the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.