MANILA, Philippines - Three inmates facing illegal drug cases were arrested Thursday while doing “errands” for policemen outside the Binangonan municipal jail in Rizal.
Inmates Jaime Gomez and Mark Sison were gassing up a motorcycle owned by a local policeman when cornered by a team headed by Senior Superintendent Rolando Anduyan, Rizal police director.
A third inmate, Michael Gabriel, was tracked down by Anduyan doing “electrical work” at the house under construction of PO2 Ghazali Bantao.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Nicanor Bartolome immediately ordered the relief of Chief Inspector Edcil Canals, Binangonan police chief, and five of his men.
Bartolome directed Anduyan to file charges of infidelity in the custody of a prisoner and serious neglect of duty against Canals and his men.
Gomez, Sison and Gabriel were all detained at the Binangonan municipal jail for illegal drug cases.
Bartolome ordered their arrest after a television station’s spy camera caught them doing errands outside the jail for local policemen.
According to Anduyan, Gomez and Sison left the Binangonan jail at around 1 p.m. Thursday onboard a motorcycle owned by a local policeman.
When cornered, Gomez had a replica of a.38-caliber revolver tucked in his waist.
Both Gomez and Sison claimed they were out to buy rice for the consumption of the local police and inmates.
Anduyan immediately conducted a headcount of the 32 inmates at the jail. Gabriel was found missing and Anduyan traced him to Bantao’s house in Barangay Darangan.
“This practice have been going on for the past few years and even Canals, who occupied his post last January, was shocked by the incident,” said Anduyan in an interview.
Canals was replaced by Chief Inspector Bartolome Marigondon.
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