Policeman Arrested In Marikina City For Using Seized Motorcycle
MARIKINA CITY – A cop was arrested in his residence in Marikina City for using the motorcycle that was retrieved from an anti-drugs operation.
According to SunStar, the arrested cop was identified as Patrolman Orlando Estrella Perez, aged 32.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) Integrity Monitoring Enforcement Group (IMEG) was arrested at his residence on Kagitingan St, Calumpang in the city.
Retrieved from the policeman was the said motorcycle that was seized during an anti-illegal drugs operation conducted on April 5, 2020. He was assigned to the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit of the National Capital Region Police Office.
IMEG chief Brigadier General Ronald Lee said that the motorcycle was not included in the inventory of pieces of evidence that was retrieved during the said operation.
This was because Perez himself did not declare the recovery of the motorcycle from the arrested as part of the evidence.
“There will be no respite in the crackdown against scalawags amid the enhanced community quarantine against Covid-19. 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 ordered by the PNP Chief General Archie Gamboa,”
As per the report, he was under the custody of PNP-IMEG for proper disposition and the filing for appropriate charges.
The PNP Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) No. 7, also known as the Revised Procedure in the Reporting and Disposition of Stolen and Recovered/Impounded Motor Vehicles states that no PNP personnel shall use a recovered-stolen or impounded motor vehicle or cause the use by anyone before to the lifting of the alarm issued thereon and the ensuing releaseof the said vehicle.
Furthermore, removal of any part or accessory of the seized vehicle ia also punishable under the said measure.
“Administrative charge will be filed against any personnel proven guilty of illegal use of those vehicles, while his/her immediate superior will be also included in the investigation under the doctrine of ‘command responsibility’,”
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