Southern Police District director Tomas Apolinario Jr. on Friday ordered the relief of two ranking officials of Pateros and Taguig City police stations for their alleged poor performance.
Relieved from their posts as assistant chief of police for operations were Supt. Ritchie Salem (Pateros) and Supt. Maurito Caraguian (Taguig).
Apolinario ordered them replaced following the recommendation by members of the District Oversight Committee who measured their performances based on four parameters: Crime Solution Efficiency; Enhanced Managing Police Operations, Police Community Relations and the War Against Illegal Drugs.”©”©
“The District Oversight Committee gauges the overall performance of each Police Stations and determines how they are fairing with each other. As a result, for the period January to June 10, 2018, the Taguig City Police Station and Pateros Police Station failed to deliver based on the four parameters set by the committee,” said Apolinario.
Aside from the unsatisfactory performance, Caraguian was also cited due to command responsibility for failure to supervise one of his men engaged in moonlighting and caught by members of the Interagency Council for Traffic (I-ACT) driving a colorum vehicle.
The SPD chief said the current assistant chiefs of police for administrations of the two stations will replace Salem and Caraguian.
Apolinario said the relief was also part of the reorganization to strengthen the SPD’s all-out war against illegal drugs in the southern part of Metro Manila in support to the government’s campaign initiated by President Rodrigo Duterte to eradicate illegal drugs in the country.”©
“We will put the best performing PNP officers on post so that we will meet our target and attain our mission to make SPD area of responsibility drug-free. The relief of the two ACOPOs is a manifestation of our seriousness in resolving criminality and eradicating illegal drugs in SPD,” said Apolinario.
Apolinario said he was hoping his directive to relieve the police officials will serve as a challenge to the other police station chiefs and deputies to double their efforts in the campaign against illegal drugs and meet the target on the given time frame.
He also warned his men of “future changes on police station leadership and be relieved from their posts if they fail to perform well.”
Four months ago, Apolinario also ordered the relief of police officers assigned to the SPD-Special Operations Unit in connection with the alleged robbery extortion in Pasay City.
The SPD chief made the directive following a complaint filed by the family of Roselyn Genorga, 55, an illegal numbers game bet collector, who accused the police officers of demanding P200,000 in exchange for her freedom.
Investigation showed the policemen arrested Genorga while collecting bets in the area of Merville, Pasay City.
