TEN police officers assigned at the Sawang Calero Police Station in Cebu City were relieved from their posts after they allegedly robbed a 35-year-old woman suspected of being engaged in drug trafficking early this month.
The team leader was also accused of raping the woman, a resident of a subdivision in Barangay Tungkil, Minglanilla.
The woman’s arrest was reportedly not logged in the police blotter.
Criminal complaints were filed against them before the prosecutors. The police officers are also facing an internal investigation, and they will be dismissed from the service if they are proven guilty.
Accused of wrongdoing are Chief Master Sergeant Eric Edgar Emia; Staff Sergeants Celso Colita, Joseph Alcoseba and Michael Rhey Cabizares; and Corporals Rochelito Mabulay, Emmanuel Martinez, Carlo Irizari, Junel Pedroza, John Carl Aceron and Georny Abrasado.
They were members of the Sawang Calero Police Station’s drug enforcement unit. They are now assigned in the holding unit of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 headquarters pending the result of the internal investigation, and their government-issued firearms were confiscated.