POLICE on Friday, April 5, filed a case for slander by deeds and other charges against the Clark Development Corporation Public Security Department (CDC-PSD) over a parking incident involving the son of PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde.
Other charges filed against CDC-PSD security manager Romeo Ver, a retired police officer, and his men are grave coercion, unjust vaxation and direct assault upon an agent of a person in authority.
Ver has been relieved from his post.
Police Master Sergeant Jhonny Belinan and Police Corporal Jeffry Ebreo, security escorts of Kevin Albayalde, filed the charges along with the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Pampanga Field Unit.
The charges stemmed from an incident last Tuesday, April 2, where Ver allegedly accosted Albayalde’s son and disarmed his police escorts over a minor traffic violation.
Albayalde, during his Friday visit at Camp Olivas here, called for a review of freeport security regulations to check whether security personnel within these zones are allowed to carry firearms inside and outside of the zones in light of the election gun ban.
"We will check their mandate and on what extent their police power is inside the freeport not only for Clark but also in other freeport zones in the country including Subic Bay Freeport," said Albayalde.
He said his 21-year-old son was unaware that parking is not allowed at the parade grounds, but immediately accepted his violation when apprehended by CDC police.
“I don’t understand the need to shout at children over a simple parking ticket. It’s not even necessary. That is a show of extreme arrogance. The traffic altercation is a very simple and petty thing for you to show your arrogance,” Albayalde said.
As a retired official of the PNP and a current public servant, Ver must be an example and must not display arrogance, especially since he is an executive of a state-run corporation, Albayalde said.
“My son has high regard for the police but with what happened, the image of policemen was tainted in his mind. He understood the situation but what confused him is the attitude of the CDC executive who identified himself as an ex-general,” he said. (With a report from Ric Sapnu)