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Philippine police accused of executing suspects to face probe
Nine members of the Philippine elite police force were ordered to face an inquiry on Tuesday after allegations that they executed three suspects in a bank robbery.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:00 May 27, 2008
Manila: Nine members of the Philippine elite police force were ordered to face an inquiry on Tuesday after allegations that they executed three suspects in a bank robbery.
National police chief Avelino Razon also ordered the transfer of the nine police officers to the regional police headquarters in Laguna province while facing the inquiry.
"We will not tolerate any wrongdoing in our organisation," Razon told reporters.
He said the move to temporarily remove the officers from their jobs was to make sure they could not influence the investigation.
Ten people were killed in a May 16 bank robbery in Laguna. The head of the human rights commission quoted witnesses as saying that police killed the suspects in the robbery.
"There is reasonable certainty to believe that it was a case of a rubout, an out-and-out summary execution of the three men," Leila de Lima, the rights body head, told a news conference on Monday.
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