The chief of police of a city in the Second District of Negros Oriental will be relieved from his post for failure to stop the illegal numbers game “swertres” in his area of responsibility.

Senior Supt. Edward Carranza, director of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office, announced this during the turnover of two bomb-sniffing dogs from the provincial government to the PNP.

Carranza, however, refused to disclose the identity of the COP until the issuance of an order from the PNP regional police director.

He said an anti-swertres operation was conducted in the AOR of the COP, that resulted in the arrest of suspected swertres players and the confiscation of illegal gambling paraphernalia, and yet the police chief did nothing to stop it.

The COP to be sacked could be the first casualty of the one-strike police of the PNP hierarchy, Carranza said.

He said even the city or town mayor cannot prevent the relief of an erring police chief, as this is a mandate of the police.

Gov. Roel Degamo, meanwhile, reiterated his orders for Carranza to run after illegal gambling and drugs operations in the province, and to run after gun-for-hire.*JG

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