A police corporal assigned at the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) is now facing dismissal from the service when he was caught after robbing an LBC courier service branch in San Miguel, Bulacan on Sunday.
No less than Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), assured the dismissal of Police Corporal Moises Yango whose arrest also foiled his alleged attempt to rob another LBC branch in San Ildefonso town also in Bulacan.
“I have already instructed the Director, QCPD to immediately start the process for the dismissal of this policeman from the service. I will personally monitor the progress of his administrative case and make sure that he would not be able to return to the police service,” said Eleazar.
Quoting report from the Bulacan police, Eleazar said Yango barged into the LBC branch of San Miguel at around 1 p.m. on Sunday while wearing a black bonnet, orange helmet and black long sleeves.
After taking the money, the suspect rode a black motorcycle with no license plate and sped off. The incident, however, was immediately reported to the local police and a flash alarm was sent to nearby police stations. He was arrested later.
Police confiscated a hand grenade, a 9mm pistol, his PNP ID card , various identification cards, ATM cards and the P5,000 loot taken from the LBC San Miguel Branch.
Yango is currently detained at the San Miguel Municipal Police Station and will be charged with appropriate criminal and administrative charges.
“Based on the report, he is only 29 years old so this means that he is just in the service for a few years," said Eleazar.
“This is actually the wisdom behind the aggressive reform in the recruitment system through the QR Code System. We have to screen all the applicants from the very start of the recruitment process so that no bad eggs like him would be able to enter the police service," he added.
The PNP will start the recruitment of more than 17,000 policemen this year and Eleazar vowed that through the QR Code System, all the applicants would be selected on the basis of their qualifications.