AS we always say, if the police just do their job, there’s no reason why they can’t succeed in their sworn responsibility.
To succeed, many factors come into play, but hard work and strategy are all the police need to win the war against criminality.
In my years as police beat reporter, I’ve witnessed cops solving sensational crimes with just hard work and strategy.
Back then, the Criminal Investigation Service, Highway Patrol Group, and Narcotics Command were the leading units competing to solve the most cases.
Crime syndicates, whether in drugs, car theft, robbery, or other crimes, didn’t last long – their members either ended up in jail or the cemetery.
I’m sharing this to extol the recent discovery by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of a gravesite and the apprehension of two notorious killers.
Saying hard work and strategy led to a dual accomplishment, Philippine National Police chief PGen Rommel Marbil lauded CIDG agents in Sarangani for a job well executed.
According to CIDG chief PBGen Nicolas Torre III, armed with arrest warrants, his men arrested aliases Ramil and Reynante. Both are guns-for-hire operating in Mindanao on December 10.
Torre said background investigations and reliable information revealed the suspects’ involvement in illegal drugs and a series of killings in the area.
Initially reluctant to cooperate, the suspects eventually confessed during interrogation.
On December 25, they led authorities to the gravesite of their victims in Purok 5, Baluntay, Sarangani Province. One of the exhumed bodies was identified as Jomar Abedin Ubpon from Polomonok, South Cotabato.
Thanks to exceptional hard work and strategy, the CIDG-Sarangani Field Unit achieved the remarkable feat of apprehending killers behind a killing spree – truly “killing two birds with one stone.”
