Commendable action :thumb:

A brave Mandaluyong City policeman was wounded when he single-handedly confronted three armed passenger bus robbers during a shootout, which resulted in the death of the suspects on Saturday night.

Supt. Ericsson Velasquez, Mandaluyong City police chief, said that Senior Police Officer 1 Carlito Corpuz, assigned at the Mandaluyong City Hall police detachment, suffered a gunshot wound in his right arm.

One of the passengers of the airconditioned JMK airconditioned bus with license plates TVN 562, the victim Rolando Gaddi, 31, was shot in the left leg and was treated at the Ponciano General Hospital.

Velasquez identified one of the three suspects as Cesar Andangan, 23, of McArthur Highway, Meycauayan, Bulacan. A driver’s license was recovered from the suspect. Police recovered two homemade .38-caliber revolvers and a .45-caliber pistol from the suspects.

Investigators said the south-bound JMK bus was cruising on EDSA when the three suspects pulled out their handguns and accosted the passengers around 9:30 pm. near the underpass at the corner of Shaw Boulevard and EDSA.

Bus driver Dante Mendoza said one of the suspects poked a .38-caliber revolver on him and ordered him to pass at the Shaw Boulevard-EDSA underpass, while the two other armed suspects started taking wallets and jewelry from the passengers.

SPO1 Corpuz who was wearing civilian clothes and was seated near the driver, pulled out his .45-caliber service pistol and immediately shot the suspect who accosted the driver.

Corpuz shot another suspect who was standing at the middle of the bus. The suspect was able to fire back and hit the policeman in the right arm but managed to hit the second suspect.

The wounded policeman also shot dead the third suspect who was apparently surprised.

Velasquez said Corpuz who had shown extraordinary bravery will be recommended for immediate promotion to the next highest rank or SPO2.

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Kudos to this quick thinking cop, he truly is deserving of the promotion.

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Courage and presence of mind made the day for this cop. We need more like him.
Well done SPO1 Corpuz.
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One of the FEW cops proficient in practical shooting. His gun hand hand was wounded but switched to the weak hand to finish off the last bad guy standing. :thumb:

well done chief :fire: :bow:

Bisaya ni bay. :thumb:

Cop, with kids in tow, chases, nabs snatcher

THIS policeman didn’t think twice.

With his two kids in tow, the off-duty cop chased a snatcher, collared him and sent him behind bars.

PO1 Benigno Andrew Ilagan of Santander Police Station was on his way to church with his two sons when he noticed a commotion right outside the Mt. Carmel Church along Magallanes St., Cebu City.

People told Ilagan that a churchgoer was just victimized by a snatcher who was wearing a yellow shirt and a cap.

Without any hesitation, Ilagan, armed with a .45 handgun, boarded his motorcycle, made his kids take the backseat and sped off to chase the snatcher.

It was the first time the policeman brought his kids along when responding to an alarm.

Ilagan, who lives in Barangay Ermita, Cebu City, was also off duty when the incident happened last Sept. 19.

About 300 meters from the church and in front of the Ermita barangay hall, Ilagan caught up with snatching suspect Gerzon Pardillo, also of Ermita.

The two silver necklaces (P2,200) of Emmalyn Labating were found in Pardillo’s possession.

Ilagan turned Pardillo over to a barangay tanod and went back to church with his sons.

After the mass, they went to Carbon police where Pardillo was brought. Pardillo has been charged with his fourth snatching case last Monday.

It took almost a week for Sun.Star to convince him to have his story published because for him, it was not worth writing saying it was just an ordinary incident.

sunstar

Good job... :thumb:

but he should have left his kids behind while doing the chase

good job tsip :thumb:

Robbers shot dead on S. Luzon Expressway

By EDWARD PELAYO
TODAY Correspondent

Three suspected highway robbers were shot dead by members of the National Police Traffic Management Group (TMG) Task Force Limbas during a shootout inside the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) in Biñan, Laguna, before dawn Thursday.

Two of the slain suspects were identified as Bernardo Parado of 6-A, F. Castillo Street, Bagong Buhay, Project 4, and Ferdinand Gomez of San Roque, Bagong Pag-asa, both in Quezon city. The third fatality remained unidentified.

An initial investigation conducted by the Biñan Municipal Police Station disclosed that the suspects forcibly took possession of a trailer truck with a 20-foot container van containing some P1.2-million worth if assorted Nestlé products owned by a certain Armando Ramos somewhere in Metro Manila late Wednesday night.

The hijacked truck was reportedly spotted by pursuing TMG operatives led by Supt. James Cris- tobal on the southbound lane of the SLEX, near the Southwoods exit, at around 3:45 a.m.

The TMG operatives flagged down the truck, but were fired upon by the suspects, forcing the lawmen to shoot back.

No casualties were reported from the lawmen’s side.

Recovered from the slain suspects were an M-16 baby Armalite rifle, a Thompson submachine gun and a home-made .38-caliber revolver.

Investigators believe that the suspects were part of a highway robbery group operating in Metro Manila and neighboring provinces.

The cadavers of the three suspects were taken to the Rizal Funeral Homes in Pasay City, while the hijacked trailer is now at the TMG headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.


http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?...ncial&OID=66612

THIS IS A JOB WELL DONE A FAR CRY FROM THE VIGILANTE STYLE OF COLD BLOODIED MURDER TO EMULATE WITH. :thumb:

:exactly:

That's the right thing to do, eliminating the criminals without tainting the reputation of our justice system.

That even enhances the public's trust and confidence on our police force.

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ok lang patayin ang mga kriminal basta lang pabalik balik sa kulungan at ayw na gustong magbago.

I can agree with that.

Just make sure that it aint his fault why he ended up in jail again. :thumb:

Even if a criminal is a habitual offender (recidivist as the law call it) and he is in
and out of jail and completes his penalty, does he deserve to be thrown into the den of the vigilantes? The answer would be absolutely no because he had already paid the offense he had committed by finishing his sentence.

Maybe I might agree if the same criminal, is always at-large and Warrants of his arrest keep piling up because of his being elusive to the authorities.

Quezon town police chief sacked over 'jueteng'

July 12, 2005
Updated 01:30pm (Mla time)
INQ7.net

THE POLICE chief for Pagbilao town, Quezon province was sacked on Tuesday after two suspected "jueteng" bet collectors were arrested in his area of jurisdiction, the Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman said.

The relief of Senior Inspector Roger Fuentes has brought to 12 the total number of local police commanders who have been removed from their posts for allegedly failing to comply with PNP chief Director General Artuto Lomibao's "one-strike policy," said Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil.

The bet collectors, arrested at the Pagbilao public market, were identified as Manuel Losloso and Josephine Acedillo, residents of barangay (village) Del Carmen in the same town, Bataoil said in a statement.

Under a "one-strike policy," the ax will fall on local police commanders once a "jueteng" suspect is arrested in his area of jurisdiction.

The PNP has intensified its crackdown on the illegal numbers game amid reports of its continued operations, especially in the provinces.

This kind of news about cops involved in criminal activities seems to have no abatement and it's getting worse from time to time. It is a sign of gross incompetence in leadership somewhere at the top.

Someone should relinquish that stewardship from the PNP, and re-organize it from top to bottom.

The outspoken and crime hater mayor of Cebu, and the Port of Cebu Customs Collector are in tandem in condemning the police (CIDG) after doing a laudable accomplishment by doing a job that eventually exposed customs irregularities. This incident pictured Mayor Tomas Osmena as a hypocrite.


http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2005/....condemned.html
Sun.Star Cebu - Espinoza: CIDG men should be commended, not condemned

In fairness to all camps involved in this dilemma. There has been no love at all between the Sunstar daily and Mayor Osmena. the daily paper are owned by the Garcia's one Osmena's political enemy.I rather read other papers if it involves both camps.

Come to think of it, the police did something to stop these bad eggs from ruining the PNP's image further.

These wayward cops must be punished.

Dismiss them immediately.

Deny them of the benefits.

MOST OF ALL, PUT THEM IN JAIL for their crimes.!!!!! :exactly:

Di sapat kulong lang. Dapat parusahan. :exactly:

PNP operating on P35-B budget

The Philippine Star 08/11/2005

Despite a P35 billion budget this year, the Philippine National Police (PNP) is unable to buy new equipment and recruit more policemen to bolster its crime-fighting capability.

Speaking at Fernandina Forum at Dencio’s Bar and Grill in Greenhills, San Juan yesterday, PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said 90 percent of the P35-billion budget is being used to pay the salaries of policemen.

"We are operating within a budget of P35 billion for year 2005," he said.

"About 90 percent of that goes to personnel salaries. Some nine percent or P3.16 billion goes to operations. There is a very minimal amount of about P50 million for capital outlay," Bataoil said.

He said the ideal ratio for the PNP’s manpower would be 1:500 or one policeman to 500 civilians.

"We are now 113,102 uniformed personnel," he said.

"If we add the non-uniformed personnel, 4,998, this would be about 117,000. The actual ratio is 1:744 persons. The ideal strength is 168,418 policemen.

"We need a lot of policemen to build up our strength. But we are aware of the economic situation of our country."

Bataoil said barangay tanods and security guards, by providing security to the public at a local level, are a big help to the PNP. — Sandy Araneta

At least buy some guns for those 18,000 men without service firearms.

:agree: Otherwise they might be tempted to procure sidearms from an illegal source that may compromise the lawful exercise of their duties, not to mention the safety and accuracy aspect of the locally made firearms.

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?in...&story_id=46880

Wanted man dies in Cubao hostage-taking incident

First posted 05:51pm (Mla time) Aug 14, 2005
By Joel Francis Guinto
INQ7.net


POLICE shot dead a man wanted for murder and robbery who took hostage four people inside an apartment building in Quezon City's Cubao district on Sunday, according to initial reports.

While trying to evade arrest, Rosauro Inocencio barged into the second floor of a four-door apartment complex at 104 Imperial street at around 3:30 p.m. and took hostage Nenita Bertulpo, 38, his two-month-old ward, a house maid, and two other men.

When negotiations for Inocencio's surrender failed, police deployed tear gas in the apartment and then shot him.
Inocencio, who was armed with a .38-caliber pistol, fired back, injuring PO2 Johnny Deano, a member of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, in the arm.

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Good move! :thumb: :thumb:

Dapat yan para di ma mauso hostage-taking. :exactly:

I am expecting that terrorists will be treated as such or ...

... even worse than that. They deserve it anyway. :armywink:

It's pretty basic that the police should disable if not kill criminals who are armed and refuses to heed instructions to yield or surrender.

True!

But sometimes mediocrity and misjudgement gets the hostage victim dead before they neutralize the culprit.

Remember the man who picked a kid as his hostage?

The incident happened in a big bus terminal in Pasay.

The cops didnt know what to do that's why the culprit managed to kill the boy.

The cops' misjudgement killed the boy.

What the cops in the above article tries to teach us clearly emphasized the importance of quick reaction and good judgement in handling such situation.

Had the cops reacted the other way around or if they made the wrong judgement, the hostage-taker might have taken his victim down with him.

Hostage and Crisis Management---

The is the very area of policing the PNP lacks. It is not enough that this subject is taught in theory in the academy.

There should be a special unit for this, and the officers who will head the unit should undergo special and advance training, either with the Scotland Yard or New York Police Department, and then impart it with the officers in the regional levels down the line.

PNP officer puts life on the line

First posted 11:52pm (Mla time) Aug 15, 2005
Inquirer News Service



Editor's Note: Published on page A22 of the August 16, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer



SENIOR Insp. Eleuterio Tersona did his bit in the war on illegal gambling and ended giving up everything-including his life-for it.

Tersona, commander of the Taguig City Police Community Precinct 5, was stabbed dead when he and two of his men raided an illegal cockfight or "tupada" inside Marcelino Compound, Barangay Calzada-Tipas, Sunday.

When the three lawmen arrived at the tupada at 10:15 a.m., the more than 20 men who were engaged in the illegal cockfight scrambled to elude arrest, said Taguig police chief Supt. Ramon Reyes.

During the commotion, someone stabbed Tersona in the abdomen, Reyes said.

The officer, who hailed from the Mountain Province, and who had received two police achievement medals, died while undergoing treatment at the Makati Medical Center.

Mayor Freddie Tinga condemned the killing.

It is not always good to be assuming.

In illegal cockfightiing or "tupada" "tigbakay" in Cebuano, it is always presumed that several punters or people are present.

Inspector Tersona should have organized enough contingent to raid the place, rather than having only a couple of operatives with him to execute the raid. The place should have been first cordoned and sorrounded by elements before a group of raiding team would rush into the fighting arena.

The prevalence of this unfortunate incident can always be attributed to lack of operational skills on the part of the officer concerned, and sometimes due to assuming attitude.

Communist rebel killed, 8 captured in Cordillera

A COMMUNIST guerrilla has been killed and eight others captured in a clash with police in the northern Philippines, police said Tuesday.

There were no reports of police casualties in the clash on Monday near the town of Buguias in the Cordillera mountain range, 240 kilometers (149 miles) north of Manila, a police report said.

Syndicate on fake dollar notes busted in Mindanao

GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Police authorities announced they have busted a syndicate involved in the manufacturing of fake dollar notes.

Five suspects were arrested in entrapment operations launched here last Saturday.

Police Superintendent Willie Dangane said they seized 12 bundles of fake dollar bills in the amount of 10 million dollars and 18 pieces of JP Morgan treasury certificates in the amount of 1.8 billion dollars.

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The investigation of this case should dig deeper into the angle of terrorist involvement like the al Qaeda.

They are now resorting to drug trafficking and all sorts of illegal activities to fund their movement and operation as a consequence of the financial sanctions that seems had a biting effect on their fianancial coffers within the bin Laden worldwide enterprise.

I feel sorry for the death of the police officer.

Nonetheless, let's all hope that our cops will learn from that one. :exactly:

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:agree:

Since, their funds are frozen, they could be in for something else just to sustain their operations.

What about the reds, BTW? :armywink:

Lomibao promotes 12 cops for crushing band of NPA

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director-General Arturo Lomibao promoted 12 164th Provincial Police Mobile Group police officers to one rank higher last Wednesday for crushing a New People’s Army (NPA) group by killing two rebels and capturing five others during an encounter in Buguias, Benguet last Monday

http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV2005081942259.html

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Payroll heist foiled

The Philippine Star 08/24/2005

Two of six motorcycle-riding robbers were arrested yesterday in Mandaluyong City before they could stage a payroll robbery.

Superintendent Ericson Velasquez, Mandaluyong City police chief, said the suspects, Jennifer Sordilla, 31, of Imus, Cavite and Felipe Rosana, 35, of Barangay de la Paz, Antipolo City claimed they were out to snatch the payroll money for a branch of LBC, a local parcel service company.

Velasquez said Sordilla and Rosana were riding in tandem on a motorcycle with no license plates in front a fastfood restaurant on Shaw Boulevard when spotted by policemen riding on a patrol.

"When my men approached them, the officers noticed a gun tucked in Sordilla’s pants, prompting them to effect his arrest," said Velasquez, adding that the firearm was a caliber .38 revolver with six live bullets.

A subsequent search on Rosana yielded another caliber .38 revolver with live ammunition, police said.

Velasquez ordered the seizure of the suspects’ maroon Kawasaki motorcycle.

During tactical investigation, Sordilla and Rosana admitted they had been casing the area for four days waiting for LBC employees to withdraw money from the AMA bank.

Sordilla and Rosana were posted some 30 to 50 meters from the said bank.

According to the duo, their four companions escaped on board three motorcycles after learning of their arrest. Their cohorts included a certain Ambet, the designated spotter of the LBC vehicle.

Velasquez said they are now determining whether Sordilla and Rosana were involved in past robberies staged by motorcycle-riding men in the city. He said Sordilla and Rosana will be charged with illegal possession of firearms and ammunition before the City Prosecutor’s Office. — Non Alquitran

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Now that's what you call effective patrolling. Good work guys! :ssalute:

Lucky, the "Shoot first before asking questions" did'nt took place.

Good, that the incident was dealt with by the book with the on-the-spot arrest of those would-be-robbers who were armed.

Good work! Gentlemen. :thumb:

Another PNP accomplishment with a job well done plus a count of honesty.

Keep up the good work gentlemen! :thumb:


http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=48579
2 cops prove there are still heroes - INQ7.net

WHERE’S THE POLICE MOBILE? Soaring prices of oil in the world market have forced the Pasay police to resort to oil-saving measures, one of which is to patrol the streets on bicycles instead of the ubiquitous mobiles usually seen parked in nightclubs.
Photo by Albert Garcia

I'm glad to see that our PNP is improvising such measures. Not only does it help out with the soaring gas prices issue, but also great in catching fleeing hoodlums. What do you all think?

In line with PGMA's order to conserve fuel, PNP Chief Lomibao is setting-up for auction the bullet proof F-150 service vehicle of former PNP Chief Aglipay. Proceeds from the sale of the gas guzzler will be used to buy at least 3 utility vehicles to be distributed to units needing them. Good move Sir.

But I suggest, buy more guns for those 18,000 cops with no service firearms. :thumb:

PNP at work..

3 children saved from kidnappers

Police rescued three children and their nanny from their abductors yesterday, less than 36 hours after they were snatched in Quezon City.

Personnel of the Police Anti-Crime Emergency Response (PACER) also arrested six of the kidnappers, one of them a rookie policeman, in follow-up operations in Taguig and Payatas, Quezon City.

Police said they were tipped off by residents about the presence of armed men in a house in Peñafrancia, Payatas B.

Senior Superintendent Prudencio Tom Bañas said they immediately went to the area and found the victims being held hostage by the suspects late Wednesday.

Pacer chief Deputy Director General Oscar Calderon identified the arrested suspects as Police Officer 1 (PO1) Antonio Castillo, Godofredo Navanes, Lynfer Bicudo and Crispin Araneta, 24; and Anabelle Olidan and her husband Benjamin, 30.

Police tagged the suspects as remnants of the notorious Ilonggo kidnap-for-ransom group, the same group behind the kidnapping of Jethro Chua in December last year and of Josua Cancio on Sept. 26, 2003.

"(A) concerned citizen reported through NAKTF (National Anti-Kidnapping Task Force) hotline that suspicious and unusual personalities were sighted in a house in the area, prompting us to conduct intense surveillance," Calderon added.

Calderon said the victims — two twin boys aged 11, their nine-year-old sister and their 60-year-old nanny — were rescued unharmed during the police operation.

The three children along with their nanny were snatched while on their way to school along Miller street in Filinvest Subdivision, Quezon City on Aug. 30.

The siblings’ parents decided not to report the abductions to police for fear that their children would be hurt, but an unnamed witness called the NAKTF hotline and directed the police to the hideouts in Quezon City, police said.

A police official said the kidnappers initially demanded P50 million ransom but the parents said they did not have the amount and begged for more time to raise the money.

"Fortunately, the delay in payment of ransom worked for the victims and police as it gave concerned citizens time to call for police assistance that eventually led to the recovery of the victims," the official said.

The country is fighting a resurgence of kidnappings targeting mostly affluent Chinese families and members of the Chinese-Filipino community.

President Arroyo last year ordered a crackdown following a spate of high-profile abductions.

The problem was highlighted when a 10-year-old boy was kidnapped in Manila last Aug. 10 in broad daylight. Six people were also wounded during the snatch.

Teresita Ang-See of the Citizens Action Against Crime (CAAC) deplored the rise in kidnapping incidents which she said was largely due to a lack of budgetary support for the Pacer.

Ang-See said Pacer had nearly met its goal of "zero kidnapping" when the Aug. 10 kidnapping took place.

Ang-See praised yesterday the Pacer for the successful rescue of the three siblings and their nanny in Quezon City.

But the three siblings were traumatized by being held hostage for more than two days, she said.

Ang-See claimed she had the opportunity to talk with the victims following the rescue and that they were apparently maltreated by their captors.

"The children said they were not fed (properly) and were hit (on) different parts of their body. The marks of the packaging tape were visible in their faces. Their eyes were reddish because of the tape," Ang-See said.

She said the children were held inside a "stinking comfort room and fed only crackers" during the first day of their captivity.

The kidnappers even used the allowance of the children to buy the crackers.

"The children were crying while saying, ‘They will kill us and hit us.’ My heart bleeds for the children, imagine children like them (having) to go through such treatment," she added.

Ang-See added the victims still fear that the leader of the kidnap group will take revenge and kill them.

Police withheld the name of the alleged ringleader pending his arrest.

Ang-See said the arrest of Castillo, an active member of the Philippine National Police-Aviation Security Group (ASG), was disturbing.

"We feel very bothered. What are we doing with policemen implicated in kidnapping-for-ransom (incidents)? We are not just fighting criminals, we are fighting those who are supposed to protect us," Ang-See said.

A ranking police official, on the other hand, said the PNP is now finalizing its order of battle against known kidnap-for-ransom groups. He said there are at least nine big-time kidnap syndicates still operating in the country.

"The nine groups are lending their men to each other along with firearms and equipment for their operations," the official said

The official claimed most of those listed in the order of battle are remnants of crime syndicates that had been neutralized by the police and the NAKTF.

He said the arrest of the six suspects who are also tagged as members of the Ilonggo group indicated some of its members have resurfaced and are banding together to carry out kidnapping activities.

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200509020406.htm

Talk about community support :thumb:

Sucks, a PNP accomplishment, down the drain.

"We feel very bothered. What are we doing with policemen implicated in kidnapping-for-ransom (incidents)? We are not just fighting criminals, we are fighting those who are supposed to protect us," Ang-See said.

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