The Philippine National Police-Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group has arrested an anti-narcotics policeman for allegedly using a motorcycle seized from a drug suspect.
PNP-IMEG director Police Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee identified the suspect as Police Patrolman Orlando Perez, assigned to the NCRPO Drug Enforcement Unit.
Lee said that they received and confirmed an intelligence report that a policeman assigned to the NCPRO-DEU took a motorcycle confiscated in a recent drug buy-bust operation as his own.
A relative of the drug suspect sought the assistance of the IMEG which immediately conducted the operation on Tuesday in Marikina City.
“He was caught in the act of using for his personal use a recovered motorcycle owned by a drug suspect during their anti-illegal drug operation in Marikina City last April 5, 2020,” said Lee.
Perez reportedly did not list the motorcycle in the inventory of confiscated items from the drug suspect after the operation.
Lee said the arrested policeman is now in the custody of the PNP-IMEG for filing of appropriate charges.
“There will be no respite in the crackdown against skalawags amid the enhanced community quarantine against COVID-19,” said Lee.
“This is in line with our continuing effort to identify and arrest PNP personnel who illegally use recovered and carnapped vehicles and motorcycles that were inventoried as evidence in police operations as part of the massive internal cleansing program,” he added. (Aaron Recuenco)
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