[Closer Look] From roving kill teams to Sauron, the shadow of Sinas looms

It is time for the House quad comm to summon former PNP chief Debold Sinas. They can no longer ignore the elephant in Cebu’s bloody landscape.

of Tanauan, Batangas, when questions about Police Captain Kenneth Paul Albotra’s career track broadened the crime landscape all the way to the Central Visayas provinces of Cebu and Negros Oriental .

Garma’s self-confessed role in creating a national task force to expand the Davao drug war’s reward systemLawmakers were trying to track the movements of Albotra and his team when Oplan Sauron surfaced. Albotra has had an exceptionally mobile career. Lawmakers believe his assignments involved gathering intelligence for secret kill operations.

Few officers transfer to other regions with their men in tow, “unless you go there with a specific mission,” remarked Antipolo 2nd District Representative Romeo Acop, a retired police general. After Calamba, Albotra and his two companions returned to Cebu City. They met Garma for the first time during a courtesy call on July 3 or 4. That was when Alborta told her of the Hallili slay, she claimed.Garma didn’t blink at the slay disclosure. Albotra slid back into his old post, his men still by his side. His new boss “treated him very well.”

”I look at them as part of the problem, not the solution, and they themselves are the suspects,” Osmeña told Rappler in September 2018.Two other controversial cops served under Sinas at the PRO-7. Police Colonel Lito Patay, who had been linked to death squad killings, replaced Garma at the regional Criminal Investigation and Detection Group .

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