To serve as a deterrent to their colleagues, the 18 officials of the PNP who were forced to leave the service due to their alleged links to the drug trade should be charged administratively and criminally, senators said. | MRamosINQ nestleCDN /PDI
For Senators Francis Escudero, JV Ejercito and Jinggoy Estrada, seeking the criminal indictment of the 18 high-ranking policemen was the “logical” thing to do.“Follow the evidence. If good enough for criminal conviction, then they should file the cases,” Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III added.
The others were former Caraga regional police office director Brig. Gen. Pablo Labra II and Colonels Rogarth Campo, Rommel Ochave, Rommel Velasco, Robin Sarmiento, Fernando Ortega, Rex Derilo, Julian Olonan, Rolando Portera, Lawrence Cajipe, Dario Menor, Joel Kagayed Tampis, Michael David, Igmedio Bernaldez, Rodolfo Albotra Jr. and Marvin Sanchez.
Only Ochave, however, is still assigned with the Police Regional Office 7 as director of the Cebu Provincial Police Office. The five others—Medina, Labra, Derilo, Albotra and Sanchez—have since been deployed to other police offices.
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