Newly installed PNP chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. has vowed to wage an aggressive internal cleansing, especially those involved in illegal drugs, but maintained there were more good than rotten cops among the 228,000 police force. | dexcabalzaINQ /PDI
In his assumption speech on Monday, Acorda warned his men and women not to be involved by any means in illegal drug trading lest they be criminally and administratively charged and be removed from the service.
With only eight months of service until his retirement on Dec. 3, Acorda would have to tie up the loose ends of the controversies surrounding the alleged involvement of high-ranking PNP officials in covering up the arrest of a now-dismissed police officer tied to the almost a ton of crystal meth, or “shabu,” seized in a drug raid in Manila in October last year, and the pilferage of some of the confiscated drugs by agents of the PNP Drug Enforcement Group .
Two parallel investigations are being conducted regarding the controversial drug raid—one conducted by the PNP Special Investigation Task Group 990 and another by the National Police Commission , where Abalos and Acorda sit as ex officio chair and commissioner, respectively.
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