Duterte orders charges filed vs suspects in Negros Oriental police ambush

JUSTICE. President Rodrigo Duterte visits the wake of 4 police officers killed in an ambush in Negros Oriental province. Photo courtesy of Police Regional Office 7

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A day before the State of the Nation Address, President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, July 21, met with Central Visayas regional police and instructed them to apprehend the suspects involved in an ambush that killed 4 police officers in Negros Oriental. “[He said] the PRO should file a case against suspects who killed the PNP . That is the guidance of the President: arrest and neutralization, and give justice to 4 policemen,” Brigadier General Debold Sinas, the Central Visayas’ police director, told reporters on Monday, July 22.

The President also met with the families of the police officers killed. He gave slain officers Relebert Beronio, Raffy Callao, Roel Cabellon, and Marquino de Leon the Order of Lapu-Lapu Rank of Kalasag medals. While Sinas could not divulge any further details of the President's conversation with the police, he said they discussed the person of interest named Victoriano Anadon, the individual the police officers were going to see when they were intercepted by 20 to 40 members of the New People’s Army. (READ:

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