Former Ozamiz City vice mayor Nova Princess Parojinog (File photo) MANILA - The former chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Custodial Service Unit has been dismissed from the service for sexually assaulting former Ozamiz City vice mayor Nova Princess Parojinog who is detained at the facility. "Regarding Lt. Col. Jigger Noceda, he was dismissed from the service through a decision dated March 25, 2021. He filed an MR (motion for reconsideration), which was denied on June 13, 2021. He has a pending appeal to the NAB (National Appellate Board) of the Napolcom (National Police Commission). His present status is dismissed from the service pending his appeal," said PNP chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, in a message to the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Wednesday. The Napolcom would facilitate the resolution of appealed administrative cases and permanently remove from service those found corrupt and abusive, Eleazar said. In October last year, the PNP Women and Children Protec
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The number of police deployment ballooned to more or less a third of the 220,000 personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) as cities and municipalities in the Visayas and Mindanao also implemented their own community quarantine measures and as health and security experts saw the need to make the presence of the police felt on every streets to compel the people to behave towards protecting themselves at least via wearing of face masks and observing physical distancing.
The Joint Task Force COVID Shield, then headed by Police Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, even went to the extent of deploying elite police commandos and soldiers on board armed personnel carriers to force hard-headed people not to go out – an effective formula which health experts acknowledged to be contributing factor in the reduction of COVID cases which was later adopted in Cebu City when an upsurge of infection was monitored in the middle of this year.