Police operatives on Friday night caught in the act an active member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force and two others while having a drug session inside a house in Barangay Tuktukan in Taguig City.
The SAF personnel was identified as PO3 Lynn Tubig, 38, who is assigned in Camp Bagong Diwa, while her two companions were identified as John Vincent German, 21; and Fernando German, 48.
“The group is also allegedly involved in incidents of robbery,” said SPD director Tomas Apolinario, who along with newly designated Metro Manila police director Guillermo Eleazar, presented the suspects to the media
Eleazar earlier warned the so-called “rogue cops” to stop their illegal activities because he would certainly run after them as he takes the helm of National Capital Region Police Office.
Eleazar, the former commander of the Police Southern Tagalog Region-4A (Calabarzon), replaced Camilo Cascolan, who is now assigned as head of the Civil Security Group.
He promised to continue the government’s anti-illegal drugs crackdown in Metro Manila and reinforce its fight to weed out the police force of scalawags.
Tubig’s arrest for illegal drugs was the first incident involving a SAF personnel.
The arrest came after a team of operatives responded to a robbery incident in Kawayanan Purok 6 Tuktukan, Taguig City.
While approaching the scene of the incident, the operative noticed an unidentified gun-wielding suspect hurriedly fleeing the scene who had sought refuge in one of the houses in the interior village of Kawayanan Purok 6.
This prompted the policemen to chase the suspect who was subsequently caught where users were having a shabu session inside the house.
Recovered from the suspects were three plastic sachets of suspected shabu, assorted ammunition, and drug paraphernalia.
Aside from Tubig and her companions, 123 others have been arrested during simultaneous anti-drug operations in the southern part of Metro Manila last Friday.
The 24-hour operation, involving operatives of the Southern Police District, also led to the seizure of 161 sachets of methamphetamine hydrochloride, locally known as shabu, worth more than P130,000.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency admitted that the international drug syndicates are operating in the country in cahoots with government officials, including ranking police officials.
Shabu, marijuana and party drug ecstasy are the top three narcotics distributed in the streets and these prohibited substances are manufactured by Chinese, Taiwanese and Mexican drug syndicates.