MANILA (1st UPDATE) - President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday publicly named five police officers allegedly involved in illegal drug trade as he continued to press his campaign against drugs, criminality and corruption.
Speaking at the Philippine Air Force's (PAF) celebration of its 69th anniversary at Clark Air Base, Duterte said he ordered the following relieved from from their posts:
· General Marcelo Garbo,
· General Vicente Loot,
· General Bernardo Diaz,
· General Joel Pagdilao, and
· General Edgardo Tinio.
Loot is no longer in the Philippine National Police. He is now mayor of Daanbantayan, Cebu province.
Duterte relieved those still in the police service of their duties and asked the National Police Commission (Napolcom) to investigate them.
A Philippine Star report earlier said Diaz and Garbo, along with three other officials, were spotted meeting with a staff member of Liberal Party standard-bearer Mar Roxas in Novotel in Araneta Center, Quezon City before the May elections.
The generals, which included Director Generoso Cerbo Jr., chief of the PNP directorate for intelligence, and C/Supts. Renier Idio and Ronald Santos, denied attending a political gathering, insisting that it was a mere personal get-together with a retired officer who happens to be in the Roxas camp.
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