BUREAU of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco terminated the services of a job order employee arrested last November 22 in Muntinlupa City.
The employee, along with 9 others, was arrested by operatives of the Southern Police District (SPD) after allegedly pretending to be from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), and detaining and attempting to rob a Chinese national residing in the Ayala Alabang Village.
It was gathered that the employee presented himself as an immigration officer during the arrest.
“Upon checking our records, we confirmed that he is not an immigration officer, but rather a job order employee,” said Tansingco. “As a job order employee, he was not authorized to conduct arrests, and was actually assigned to do simple office tasks,” he added.
Job order employees are contractual personnel of the Bureau, with six months contracts to render office services for the agency.
Upon learning of the incident and the misrepresentation, Tansingco ordered the immediate termination of the said employee. The BI is also closely coordinating with the Philippine National Police to ensure that the filing of criminal charges against the employee is pursued.
“People like him tarnish the name of the Bureau that we work so hard to improve,” said Tansingco. “We will not tolerate any such illegal activities, hence we immediately terminated his services, and he will continue to face the criminal charges that might be filed against him,” he said.
