Blue Ribbon committee chairman Senator Richard Gordon on Wednesday said it will not release alleged “ninja cop” Police Maj. Rodney Baloyo to the Pampanga police.
Baloyo has been detained at the New Bilibid Prison since October for being “very evasive” during a Senate hearing into the “ninja cops” controversy.
He was the head of the anti-drug operation in Pampanga in 2013 where he and 12 other Pampanga policemen were charged with grave misconduct and demoted by one rank in 2017.
Gordon said Pampanga had asked his committee if it could release Baloyo from detention so he could testify in court.
“We are being asked by the police authorities in Pampanga to send Maj. Baloyo to Pampanga to appear in court. According to them, there’s a court order. Baloyo is from Pampanga and the cases occurred in Pampanga and that he would be in his own element there,” Gordon said. Macon Ramos-Araneta
“If he proceeds there, what will Baloyo say? If he didn’t answer any questions from us, what more in court],” Gordon said