REGIONAL POLICE. The Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 (Central Visayas) Headquarters at the Camp Sergio Osmeña Sr. in Cebu City. (Photo by John Rey Saavedra)
CEBU CITY -- A policeman who refused to be deployed to Mindanao to secure the conduct of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) plebiscite tendered his resignation, the region’s top police official said Wednesday.
Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, Police Regional Office 7 (Central Visayas) Director, in a press briefing, said that Police Officer 3 (PO3) Karl Belandres Osorio is considered resigned effective February 1, 2019.
According to him, Osorio opted to resign than to go with his unit to Lanao del Norte where the BOL plebiscite was conducted on Wednesday.
Osorio, a native of Dalaguete, Cebu, is a member of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion - Central Visayas.
Sinas said Osorio was supposed to join 300 other operatives ordered by the Philippine National Police (PNP) to be deployed to Lanao del Norte to assist in providing security during the ongoing plebiscite.
“We conducted an accounting of our troops’ movement, he really refused to join,” Sinas said.
“We have to remind our policemen that this is part of our job. We assured our police in PRO-7 to give them updates of their colleagues,” he said, adding that Osorio’s action “affects our personnel’s morale.” (PNA)
