The Quezon City People’s Law Enforcement Board (PLEB) has recognized the police official who led members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Action Force (SAF) during the Mamasapano Law Enforcement Operation in Maguindanao on Jan. 25, 2015, that resulted in the death of a known internati
The Quezon City People’s Law Enforcement Board has dismissed from service a Manila policeman who shot dead a traffic enforcer on Oct. 13. Ruling on the administrative case filed by the victim’s common-law wife and friend, the QC PLEB dismissed Lt. Felixberto Tiquil for killing Edgar Abad Follero of the Quezon City department of public order and safety.
Apparently, because he was so focused on his war on illegal drugs, former president Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte didn’t know what was happening in his own backyard.
The Quezon City Police District is looking into reports that Lt. Col. Mark Julio Abong was in a hospital for treatment of his injuries, minutes after his vehicle figured in a hit-and-run accident that killed a tricycle driver.
After all the unresolved complaints about law enforcers’ abuses in the previous administration’s brutal crackdown on illegal drugs, it is refreshing to see disciplinary action being meted swiftly on Philippine National Police officers accused of wrongdoing.