PNP Chief Sacks 2 Cops Moonlighting for Paolo Duterte

Two police officers allegedly moonlighting as security escorts for Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte have been ordered dismissed by Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Rommel Marbil.

- By EMMANUEL TUPAS

Authorities probed police Executive M/Sgt. Rexter Millano and S/Sgt. Leonard Pamat for acting as Duterte's bodyguards without proper authority.

Millano and Pamat should be kicked out of the PNP for dishonesty, Marbil said yesterday.

"That's perpetual disqualification from any government post. This is our warning to the police force: make sure to take your job religiously," he told reporters at Camp Crame.

Davao City police chief Col. Hansel Marantan said Millano and Pamat were assigned with the Marilog and Paquibato stations.

Their immediate commanders should also be sanctioned, Marbil stressed.

Eleven officers and personnel of the Special Action Force (SAF) were dismissed in November last year for providing illegal security escort services to a Chinese national in Muntinlupa, he recalled.

Duterte is embroiled in controversy after an altercation with a businessman at a Davao bar last Feb. 24, an incident caught on closedcircuit television.