By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – What is the
difference between the police station here and those in Metro Manila Manila and
highly urbanized cities in Davao and Cebu?
The police station here bagged this
year’s Best Police Station in the country after it solved a sensational crime,
according to its Chief of Police (CoP) Superintendent Christopher Abrahano .
He said their award came after
he and his men identified the personalities behind the Martilyo Gang (MG) that
robbed in May 2014 the BHF Jewelry Gemline here.
In noon of that day ten
robbers wielding short and high powered fire arms threatened to death employees
of BHF and ransacked the gem shop. Unknown to them one of the three guards were
unaccounted because he was at the second floor. As a result he shot and killed
with his shot gun one of the nine marauders who scampered away in their
five motorcycles. But when police men plugged all the choke points here they
could not find them as they left the motor bikes and Armalite assault rifles at their escape path and rode two Sports and Asian Utility Vehicles to abscond.
48 hours after the heist, Abrahano identified
Jomel Tamlayan, Bernard Hakim and Ephraim John Evangelista who were members of
the Ga'ga' robbery holdup gang operating in Metro Manila and nearby provinces,
Visayas and Mindanao Islands.
He said they were positively
identified by witnesses through the rogues’ gallery presented by the National
Capital Region Police Office and through the effort of the Provincial
Intelligence Branch of Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPO).
“In less than 48 hours, we
were able to establish the identity of the group with the identification of the
three suspects. We consider this as a breakthrough in our investigation. And we
are still on the go until all the suspects are identified,” Abrahano said.
Abrahano added that cases of
robbery in band, attempted homicide and direct assault have been filed by the
police at the office of the prosecutor hoping that warrant of arrest would be
issued against them.
The Philippine National Police has a policy that
identification and filling of case on the culprits even if they are not yet
apprehended made the case as solved already.
Dagupan City's Chief of Police Supt. Christopher Abrahano and newshens. |