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Google maps May 10, 2021 THREE policemen in San Fernando were relieved of their duties and their firearms were recalled after a woman accused them of raping her inside the police station.
The three policemen, however, are set to file countercharges against the woman and her mother.
Police Col. Engelbert Soriano, Cebu Police Provincial Office officer-in-charge, said Monday, May 10, 2021, they have evidence to prove that the three policemen were not in the station at the time that the alleged rape happened because they were instructed to respond to an incident.
Investigation also showed that it was not the first time that the woman lodged such a complaint. She had also accused other policemen from other police stations of rape, Soriano added.
SunStar April 25, 2021 I am not undermining the police capability in handling criminal investigations. But sloppy police investigation led to the dismissal of cases at the prosecutor’s office and in the court. Worse, no progress in their investigations and no cases will be filed at all. But we cannot solely blame the police in criminal investigations because there are several factors also to be considered.
Are our police criminal investigators really well trained? Most of our policemen now under the law creating the Philippine National Police (PNP) are graduates of a four-year course and most of them are even Criminology graduates. Most of the officials are graduates of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) and took advanced courses under the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and I believed they took a course on criminal investigation.
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+ April 23, 2021 Solving a crime is like solving a jigsaw puzzle. Although jigsaw is a game while a crime is a serious matter, the way to solve these two are difficult and tedious. Here are some similarities of a jigsaw puzzle and crime. Piecing the whole picture together both the jigsaw puzzle and a crime need to be solved and in order to do that there is a need to see the whole picture. In the case of a crime, an investigator needs to see the bigger picture so as to know who committed the crime and why he or she did the crime.
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Cebu City Legal Officer Rey Gealon (File photo)
+ April 23, 2021 THE Cebu City Government has withdrawn its promise to provide legal assistance to the family of Ritchie Nepomuceno, the woman who was gunned down weeks after accusing 11 policemen of rape and extortion.
Cebu City Legal Officer Rey Gealon said Friday, April 23, 2021, that they decided to retract after learning that the killing of Nepomuceno may have been related to illegal drugs.
“The mayor was under the impression that Nepomuceno was a victim of random killing. But police investigation showed that it may have been related to illegal drugs,” Gealon said.
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