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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Monday, October 23, 2017
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ILOILO City – The commander of Police Station 1, Chief Inspector Aldrin Lamera, has been relieved from his post 20 days after an arrested drug suspect claimed of being coerced into implicating four police officers to the illegal drug trade.
On Oct. 20, Lamera was moved to the Regional Personnel Holding Administration Office of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6). He would stay there until the investigation on the drug suspect’s accusation against him had been completed.
According to 33-year-old Gilbert Sumudivilla of Rizal Street, Barangay Rizal Estanzuela, City Proper, he did not actually know Police Officer 1 Henson Digon, Police Officer 1 Domar Deocampo, a certain Police Officer 2 Moso and Police Officer 3 Caro whom he recently claimed were receiving P5,000 protection money weekly from his brother Kenneth.
Kenneth Sumudivilla, a drug pushing suspect, too, was killed in a buy-bust operation of the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) in August last year.
Gilbert said one of the police officers who picked him up on Sept. 26 in Barangay Rizal Estanzuela threatened to “salvage” him should he not link the four policemen to illegal drugs.
He identified the police officer as Police Officer 3 Wilfredo Tagle of Police Station 1.
Lamera denied Sumudivilla’s allegation.
Replacing Lamera at Police Station 1 was Senior Inspector Jose Val Ladublan from the Arevalo police station.
Ladubalan, on the other hand, was temporarily replaced by Senior Inspector Mary Grace Socorro Borio from the Police Strategy Management.
According to Senior Superintendent Henry Biñas, city police director, the order to relieve Lamera came from the PRO-6.
Sumudivilla also denied he was arrested in a buy-bust operation in his house on Sept. 26. He claimed he was forced to ride a van at gunpoint by a group of policemen led by Tagle and while inside the vehicle, threats to his life were made.
The shabu supposedly recovered from him was “planted”, added Sumudivilla.
Acting on Sumudivilla’s statements, Biñas transferred Tagle to the Arevalo police station. He said the ICPO investigation section would get down to the bottom of Sumudivilla’s allegations.
“I want a thorough investigation, the true story. Those found liable will face appropriate sanctions,” Biñas told Panay News.
He warned policemen against ruining the Philippine National Police.
“We are trying our best to gain the trust of the community. I know the truth will come out,” said Biñas./PN
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