Posted By Bulatlat.com
PANABO City, Davao del Norte — Bien Sumuroy, spokesman of Amoran Saripada Command of the New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao, said the “the criminal Panabo City police” arrested and severely mauled Toto Ancahas and Gerald Robles last week, and presented them to the media as petty criminals-turned-members of the New People’s Army, just because they are “humiliated, paranoid and obviously reeling from the impact of the New People’s Army raid at their police headquarters.”
Gerard Robles, on parole after serving in the nearby Davao Penal Colony rehabilitation center, reportedly earned the ire of the Panabo police after he refused to cooperate and join a “police-masterminded extortion and illegal drugs racket and armed robbery”.
Toto Ancahas was placed on the Philippine National Police Panabo wanted list after he brought the bail bond to the local reactionary court on behalf of the families of four arrested NPA members last 2009, said Sumuroy.
“The arrest of the two civilians shows the desperation of the PNP Panabo to deodorize its criminal image as a protector of underground
syndicates and mastermind of the wave of criminal activities in the city. Hyped as the public safety battalion, the PNP is wanting to score “pogi” (brownie) points against the people’s army following the 19 March NPA punitive action against the criminal Panabo police force,” Sumuroy explained.
Also last month, the Panabo police, according to Sumuroy, has indiscriminately strafed two civilians on board a van parked near the police station, wounding a woman who is now in jail.
Sumuroy said that if the claims of the Panabo police were true about civilians Ancahas and Robles being set to liquidate police personnel and CSU members who are connected to armed robbery and illegal drugs, “then understandably, Panabo Police Chief Supt Alexander Serrano Jr. must be “at the height of paranoia”.
Sumuroy said that the police paranoia is understandable because the “criminal” Panabo PNP has, for one, been exposed further as “coddlers of criminals, if not actual hoodlums in uniforms; and for another, because the civilians have taken it upon themselves to act against the criminal PNP Panabo police.
