DCPS hits malicious tag
“WE feel sad and insulted”.
This was the reaction of P/Superintendent Christopher Abrahano, city police chief here after some quarters in the local media came out a speculation that the police and a top city official here was behind the attempted murder of broadcaster Orly Navarro, officer-in-charge of dwIZ News Radio Dagupan dawn Tuesday in Barangay Pantal here.
“These talks are baseless,” he told local newsmen Thursday during the KBP Forum and pointed to the evidence gathered, backed by testimonies of two witnesses at the crime scene and the victim himself pointing to the arrested suspect.
“We did our job,” Abrahano said. “We have solved the case. We briefed Orly (the victim) and he agreed to our investigation and then it’s saddening to hear such malicious insinuations (linking us) coming out,” he lamented.
He said that although the media and the police sometimes do not see eye to eye on some issues “but when it comes to work… we perform our job”.
He said some media networks even maliciously attributed to the police as the source of the insinuation that pointed to the city’s local chief executive’s involvement in the shooting.
“It’s saddening. I take this as an insult to the intelligence of our policemen in Dagupan,” he said.
He said that in his initial talk with Navarro at the hospital, Navarro admitted to being critical to the alleged illegal activities of Lim who has history of drug abuse and a bully in the neighborhood.
“That’s where started the neighborhood rift between the two,” Abahano added.
He said he is confident that the pieces of evidence gathered are sufficient to substantiate the filing of the case.
Abrahano said their goal is to pursue the case from prosecution to conviction.
Meanwhile, Mayor Belen Fernandez laughed off insinuations being spread made by her detractors linking her and the police to Navarro’s shooting.
When the shooting happened, she said she was attending a meeting of the League of Cities of the Philippines in Manila and she immediately ordered the police upon learning of the incident “to arrest the perpetrator/s and to give justice to the victim.”
She said she has learned to accept that criticism, including those from the media, is part of a politician’s life and she has adjusted to that kind of life.
She added that she values her reputation here as a leader who abhors violence. (Tita Roces)
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