A QUEZON City policeman was arrested shortly after he robbed a branch of the courier service firm LBC in San Miguel, Bulacan on Sunday, the PNP reported yesterday.
PNP chief Guillermo Eleazar ordered the Quezon City Police District to immediately start legal process for the dismissal of Corporal Moises Yango, 29, who is assigned with the QCPD and a resident of Barangay Sikatuna Village, Quezon City.
A man wearing a bonnet barged into the LBC branch in Barangay Camias, San Miguel last Sunday afternoon, declared holdup, and fled aboard a motorcycle with no license plate.
Policemen who conducted a pursuit operation arrest the suspect, who was later identified as Yango. He yielded a hand grenade, a 9 mm pistol, a PNP identification and other IDs, ATM cards and the P5,000 loot taken during the robbery.
Yango is currently detained at the San Miguel police station while criminal charges are being readied against him.
Eleazar said he has instructed QCPD Director Brig. Gen. Antonio Candido Yarra “to immediately start the process for the dismissal of this policeman from the service.”
“I will personally monitor the progress of his administrative case and make sure he will not be able to return to the service. Based on the report, he is only 29-years-old, meaning he has been with the service for a few years only,” said Eleazar.
Eleazar said such crime involving a policeman shows the need to institute reforms in the recruitment process of the PNP, which is set to hire 17,000 additional cops this year, through the QR Code System.
“This is actually the wisdom behind the aggressive reform in the recruitment system through the QR Code System. Right from the start, we should be very careful in our recruitment to prevent such kind policeman from entering the PNP because they only destroy the image of our organization,” Eleazar said.
Through the QR Code System, the PNP said all the applicants would be selected on the basis of their qualifications.
“No names, no pictures and no sponsors. Through our QR CODE System we will be assured that only the best police applicants would be given the opportunity to join the PNP,” Eleazar said.
