Manila, April 8 -- A police officer in Cebu City was arrested for robbery-extortion on Tuesday, the anti-scalawag unit of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Wednesday.
In a statement sent to reporters, Integrity Monitoring Enforcement Group (IMEG) chief Col. Ronald Lee identified the suspect as Cpl. Wenefredo Olangayo, who is assigned at the Waterfront Police Station 3 and his cohort Jevy Rea Gelig, a resident of Barangay San Roque Cebu City.
He said the internal cleansing of the PNP will continue amid the ongoing health emergency in the country.
"This is in line with our continuous effort to identify and arrest police scalawags despite the pandemic we are facing these days, as part of the massive internal cleansing program ordere...