CLARK FREEPORT —The state-owned Clark Development Corp. (CDC) issued on Friday a “public apology” to PNP Director General Oscar Albayalde whose son was “inconvenienced and embarrassed” by a top CDC security official here last Tuesday.
This, amid reports that the CDC has fired retired police Col. Romeo Ver, chief of the CDC security operations, after he and other CDC cops confronted Albayalde’s son Kevin, 21, and his security escorts Police Master Sergeant Johnny Belinan and Police Cpl. Jeffrey Ebreo, for alleged improper parking at the parade grounds here.
CDC officials, however, declined to deny nor confirm whether Ver was fired. There were reports he resigned.
Belinan and Ebreo were later reported to have filed against Ver charges of slander by deeds, grave coercion, unjust vexation and direct assault upon an agent or a person in authority before the prosecutor’s office of Mabalacat City.
Informed of what happened, Albayalde accused Ver of “extreme arrogance” in handling the parking case of his son who was at the parade grounds to jog.
In a statement, the CDC said: “We would like to issue this public apology to PNP Director General Oscar Albayalde and his sons for the inconvenience and embarrassment that arose in an incident inside Clark.”
“We have already taken swift and decisive measures to address the incident and ensure that this does not happen again,” the statement said, short of saying that Ver was fired.
The CDC further said: “We would like to assure the public that such misunderstanding is an isolated incident as CDC adheres to prescribed standards and procedures towards enforcement of traffic rules and regulations in Clark.”
Albayalde noted that despite a ticket for traffic violation was issued by the CDC police to his son, Ver continued to verbally abuse him and, together with his security escorts, hauled to the CDC security office for more questioning.
He said his son’s high regard for police officers was negatively affected by Ver’s demeanor.
