Local News: 4 Cops Face Dismissal
Four policemen assigned at the Negros Occidental Provincial Public Safety Company (NOPPSC) are facing dismissal from the service for allegedly shooting to death a father, and injuring his son in Bacolod last Saturday.
Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol, regional director of the Philippine National Police, ordered last Monday the immediate conduct of summary dismissal proceedings against the four suspects PO2Mauro Taleon, who is the alleged gunman, PO2 Eric Mongcal, PO1 Gary Sarap and PO1 Adrian Decendario.
The four suspects are implicated in the fatal shooting of Jonel Ealdama, 49, and injury of his 16-year-old son, Mark at the Petron gas station Saturday night.
Ealdama succumbed to a gunshot wound, while Mark is still undergoing medical treatment in a hospital. The Petron gas station is a few meters away from the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOPPO) Headquarters.
The following day, Senior Supt. Allan Guisihan, police provincial director, NOPPSC company commander, Police Superintendent Armando Tubongbanua, to submit the four policemen suspects for investigation at the BCPO Police Precint-4 in Barangay Villamonte, including their firearms for ballistic examination.
Taleon was detained at the Police Precinct 4 while the three were restricted at the NOPPO headquarters. Homicide charges are being readied against Taleon.
Querol said he will personally supervise the dismissal proceedings, adding that if evidence proves that the suspects are guilty of the crime, they will be immediately dismissed from the police service.
He stressed that police abuses will not be tolerated and will be dealt with according to the law.*
