The Counter-Intelligence Task Force of the Philippine National Police arrested two more policemen as part of their mission to weed out erring policemen from the organization.
CITF head Sr. Supt Chiquito Malayo said the two policemen were caught in an entrapment operation shortly after receiving a complaint from a motorist that he is being extorted by the lawmen in exchange for a traffic investigation report in Pasig City Thursday night.
Malayo identified the arrested enforcers as Senior Police Officer-1 Johan Vega and Police Officer-3 Higino Dancel, both assigned at the Traffic Division Unit of the Pasig City Police Station.
The arrest of the two Pasig City policemen came barely a month after the CITF launched its first mission in Metro Manila, striking at two crooked Manila lawmen for alleged extortion activities at the tourist district in Malate.
The two policemen were identified as Senior Police Officer 2 Rodito Maglayun and Police Officer 3 Rowel Candelario, both assigned at the Manila Police District.
So far, Malayo said a total of seven policemen—five for robbery-extortion and two for unlawful arrest—were arrested by CITF operatives since last month.
Malayo said the operation against the two police suspects in Pasig came following an entrapment operation by the CITF at the Pasig City traffic headquarters which led to the arrest of Vega and Dancel.
“The entrapment operations was conducted after we received a complaint through our hotline number 0998-970-228,” Malayo said.
He said that the marked money was also recovered from the desks of the two suspects. The two suspects are now facing robbery extortion charges and were immediately brought to the CITF headquarters in Camp Crame prior to the filling of the case.