VAWC top in charges
filed versus policemen

Charges for Violence against Women and their Children topped the list of complaints lodged before the National Internal Affairs Service against members of the Philippine National Police in the country, an official of the agency said yesterday.

Prosecution Division chief, Misael Raymundo Dinsay, of the National IAS who was in Bacolod City, said they had handled a number of cases this year where policemen are accused by their wives for abandoning their families and for womanizing.

Dinsay said some of these cases were referred to the Women and Children’s Protection Division of Camp Crame, while others were dismissed as the wives and the policemen being charged agreed on a settlement.

He added that in cases like this, both wives and the policemen are referred to the in-house psychologists of the IAS to resolve the issues, but the problem is that IAS could not just meddle in these cases as they are considered as domestic affairs.

Dinsay added that what IAS can only do is to inform these policemen that they need to value their family, and provide them help and assistance.

Aside from VAWC charges, many policemen are also facing complaints for grave misconduct.

About 50 percent of those facing charges before the IAS have the rank of police officers 1 to Senior Police Officers 4, Dinsay said.

A study is now being conducted among policemen nationwide as ordered by PNP Director General Nicanor Bartolome to find out why policemen are facing cases like this, he said.

Dinsay and Chief Supt. Ramon Ancheta, national IAS director, were at the Police Regional Office-6 Training School in Brgy. Mansilingan in Bacolod City yesterday, and conducted a lecture to new policemen on how to respect human rights of others, so they can avoid administrative and criminal complaints.*APN

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Man nabbed
for slay-try

A construction worker wanted for frustrated murder was apprehended by members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod City, at about 11:45 a.m. Saturday.

CIDG-Bacolod head, Chief Insp. Ernor Melgarejo, identified the suspect as Canhao Pacino, 31, of Dona Juliana Subdivision, Brgy Taculing.

Melgarejo said Pacino was arrested on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Branch 49 Judge Franklin Demonteverde, who set his bail at P200,000.

Investigation showed that Pacino allegedly shot and killed a resident  and seriously injured his son in Brgy. Minuyan in Murcia town, Negros Occidental, sometime in 2008.

Melgarejo said Pacino was arrested when a concerned citizen informed them that there is an arrest warrant for the construction worker. Pacino is now detained at the CIDG office in Bacolod.*APN

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