But PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas, whose approval was needed to make the dismissal recommendation enforceable, said it has yet to reach his office.
Aside from recommending dismissal for the nine policemen, the PNP-IAS also recommended sanctions for two higher officials of the Sulu police force for command responsibility—Lt. Col. Walter Annayo, then chief of the Sulu police force, and Capt. Ariel Consino, head of the provincial drug enforcement unit of the Sulu police.
Annayo, who was sacked from his post after the shooting of the Army intelligence agents in Jolo, was gunned down in Maguindanao a few days ago. Sinas has ordered an investigation of the apparent assassination. Four Army intelligence officers were shot dead by policemen at a checkpoint in Sulu last June in what police had initially described as a “misencounter” but which the military said was murder.
“We will not renege on our commitment to our soldier-victims and their loved ones that we will pursue this quest for justice until it is served judiciously and with due haste,” Arevalo said.
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