PNP on Sara bodyguards: No request yet for return

There is no formal request from Vice President Sara Duterte for the replacement of 31 members of her security detail or the appointment of new ones, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).

- EMMANUEL TUPAS

Col. Jean Fajardo, PNP spokesperson, said on Monday the Police Security and Protection Group (PSPG) is awaiting an official communiqué on the matter from Duterte’s camp.

“They haven’t received a formal request yet coming from the Office of the Vice President regarding her wish for new security offcers or at least the replacement of the 31 remaining with her,” Fajardo said over dzBB radio. Sen. Ronald dela Rosa, at a Senate hearing earlier, asked PNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil to reinstate Duterte’s most trusted police escorts who had been reassigned.

Marbil, in response, committed to reinstate the reassigned police officers who had been detailed with Duterte for a long time.

Fajardo said the PSPG will act on Duterte’s request.