00:00Meanwhile, a Region 12 police commander and former CIDG chief has been put in the PNP doghouse
00:06on account of witnesses' statements and documented proof of a whistleblower
00:11in the ongoing probe of the 34 missing cockfighting enthusiasts.
00:17The details of his preventive suspension in this report from our Ryan Nesigis.
00:21Wherefore, premise is considered. The motion for preventive suspension filed by complainant Ella Kim T. Patidongan is hereby granted.
00:35Former CIDG chief police Brigadier General Romeo Macapas was placed under preventive suspension
00:40by the National Police Commissioner NAPOCOM in connection with the ongoing investigation on the case of the missing cockfighters.
00:46According to NAPOCOM vice chairperson and executive officer attorney Rafael Kalinisan,
00:51a 90-day suspension was imposed on the general on August 14.
00:55A so-called whistleblower identified as Totoy and his brother Ella Kim filed the complaint before NAPOCOM.
01:02This was reportedly related to Macapas alleged abuses to hinder the progress of the investigation into the missing cockfighters case.
01:09Moreover, responded altered the messages contained in the cell phones by deleting some of the messages.
01:17He even allegedly concealed the SD cards of the cell phones despite knowing that these are material evidence in the missing Sabongeros case.
01:26In the complaint filed before the Inspection, Monitoring, and Investigation Service or IMIS,
01:31Macapas was accused by the complainants of trying to implicate them as masterminds in the kidnapping of 34 cockfighters between 2021 and 2022.
01:40On Friday, August 22, the IMIS of NAPOCOM filed a complaint against Macapas before the Legal Affairs Service for grave misconduct and conduct unbecoming of a police officer.
01:50Macapas declined to give an interview, but in a text message, he said,
02:18This is just a normal process and that he is ready to answer the complaint.
02:23Macapas was the former CIDG chief assigned to continue the investigation on the case.
02:28Kalinisan also revealed that aside from Macapas, there are other police officers they will investigate who are reportedly directly involved in the case.
02:36Although their identities have not yet been disclosed, Kalinisan said that among the four is a general.
02:41Ryan Lisiguez from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines, Kamkrami.
