THE Philippine National Police (PNP) said at least three police officials and 12 others have been relieved from their post over alleged violations in serving the arrest warrant against Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.
PNP spokesperson Police Colonel Jean Fajardo identified the relieved officials as Police Regional Office 11 director Police Brigadier General Aligre Martinez, PNP Directorate for Operations head Police Major General Ronald Lee, and Intelligence Group director Police Colonel Edwin Portento.
Nine members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, two from the Special Action Force, and one from the Traffic Enforcement Unit were also relieved from post. They were reassigned to Police Regional Office IV-A (Calabarzon).
“They were administratively relieved to give way to the conduct of our investigation if there were indeed lapses, kung nagkaroon ng pagmamalabis, o nagkaroon ng negligence of supervision,” Fajardo told reporters.
“Titignan po natin, iyong pagseserve ba ng warrant ay naging tama, wala bang na-violate sa (We’ll see if the warrant was served above board, if it did not violate our) police operational procedure on June 10 that led to this issue of the police actions being a supposed overkill,” she added.
Fajardo, however, clarified that the PNP still stands by its position that serving of the warrants of arrest against Quiboloy was a lawful operation.
Quiboloy is facing charges of child prostitution, sexual abuse, and other acts of neglect, abuse, cruelty or exploitation and other conditions prejudicial to the child’s development.
