SAN ANTONIO, Nueva Ecija – Two police superintendents, including the chief of the Philippine National Police’s intelligence group, two junior officers and 250 other law enforcers were hauled to the Office of The Ombudsman for a string of criminal charges filed by the mayor of this town.
Police Supts. Charles Calima, PNP IG chief, and David De Leon Allaluigan, an IG member; SPO3 Paquito Guillermo and PO3 Broberto Nicolas of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group were named respondents, along with 250 unnamed others, in a complaint sheet received by the Ombudsman on June 28, 2012, filed by Mayor Arvin Salonga.
Calima and Allaluigan were charged with perjury while Guillermo, Nicolas and the 250 unnamed lawmen were included in violation of anti-graft and corrupt practices act.
Calima, Allaluigan, Guillermo and Nicolas were also charged of violation of domicile, searching domicile as well as administrative charge of grave misconduct and oppression.
The cases stemmed from the raid conducted by the IG, CIDG, Special Action Force and Regional Mobile Group on the residence of Salonga which resulted to confiscation of his firearms at about 5:30 a.m. on June 11, 2012.
In his complaint, Salonga alleged that Allaluigan and the other policemen “without any justifiable reason at all, arrested and handcuffed the municipal security personnel” namely Edgar Brigole, Freddie Marquez and Romeo Illana.
Salonga also alleged that the law enforcers covered all CCTV cameras in his house before conducting the search.
“That when they were already assured that the CCTV cameras were already covered and disabled to detect and/or record their actions and movements, the respondent-Allaluigan and his team proceeded to take and carried away my licensed firearms,” he complained.
An inventory of confiscated items showed the operatives recovered from the mayor’s house two hand guns and a shotgun.
The policemen, he said, swooped down on his house at No. 223 Cando St., Poblacion while the address on the warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Branch 22 Judge Marino Dela Cruz was no. 13.
Calima has said the operations were in line with the government’s campaign against private armed groups.
