Entire Philippine city’s 1200 police forced sacked after gruesome killings and robberies
It was the first time an entire city police unit has been relieved of its duties since President Rodrigo Duterte unleashed his bloody crackdown against illegal drugs
The Philippine capital’s police chief ordered that the entire 1,200-member police force in one of Manila’s biggest areas be relieved of duty and retrained on Friday in response to a series of controversies, including the killing of two teenagers.
Metro Manila’s top officer Oscar Albayalde said all police personnel in the Caloocan area of the capital would undergo retraining and reorientation before being reassigned to other police units, not necessarily in Manila.
“We will start with the city’s police precincts 2 and 7,” Albayalde said.
All personnel in Caloocan’s headquarters and seven precincts would be temporarily replaced by the regional public safety battalion, a combat-trained unit.
“This will be done in batches,” he said.
Albayalde did not say how long the retraining would last and how long it would take for the entire police force in Caloocan to be replaced.