MANILA – The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) on Tuesday ordered the Southern Police District (SPD) to ensure the meticulous and proper collection of evidence against a police lieutenant colonel and his wife tagged in the killing of a police sergeant in Taguig City last month.
NCRPO acting director, Brig. Gen. Anthony Aberin, made this directive to Southern Police District (SPD) director Brig. Gen. Bernard Yang as the administrative investigation has been started against the police colonel and his wife, also a cop assigned to the Regional Mobile Battalion of the NCRPO.
“The suspects were immediately placed under restrictive custody. If evidence warrants and after the appropriate legal process are undertaken, the suspects involved should be dismissed from the service while facing the criminal cases against them,” Aberin said.
The lieutenant colonel has already admitted to killing Executive Master Sergeant Emmanuel de Asis inside their quarters at the NCRPO headquarters in Taguig City on November 28.
The suspect claimed that he caught de Asis in an intimate situation with his wife.
“There will be no stone left unturned in this investigation. The pieces of evidence are overwhelming and I specifically instructed concerned units to ensure the filing of airtight criminal and administrative cases against the suspects,” Aberin said.
Meanwhile, Philippine National Polie spokesperson Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo said the wife of the police lieutenant colonel has been suffering from trauma over the incident.
Fajardo said the wife was with the husband during the travel to Baguio City to bury the dismembered body of de Asis.
“So we have not yet obtained her version of the story. But what’s important here is we already established there is definitely murder in this case and then another case, the mutilation and possibly, the attempt to hide this incident,” said Fajardo in a press conference.
Fajardo said an investigation is also ongoing to determine whether other people are behind the killing of de Asis. (PNA)