The so-called recycling of confiscated drugs as payment for rogue informants sparked outrage among the legislators, with Sen. Ronald dela Rosa calling the scheme “infuriating” at the hearing of the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs. /PDI
Despite earlier claims by the Philippine National Police that it had rid its ranks of such rogue members, Barbers, chair of the House dangerous drugs committee, said an informant told him during a closed-door session on Tuesday that the practice had been going on since the early 2000s.
Barbers said in Filipino: “If this is true, this is a heinous act by these unscrupulous antidrug law enforcers.” At the Senate, Dela Rosa’s committee also looked into Lazo’s statements, as well as the possibility of such reward policy being connected to the 42 kilos of shabu that “mysteriously reappeared” near the gate of the PNP headquarters at Camp Crame in Quezon City in October 2022.
Pressed for details, Lazo, also a retired major general from the PNP, said he was approached by a friend, also a retired PNP officer, about some tipsters offering him “jobs” or “projects” in exchange for 30 percent of the seized drugs as “incentive.” For his part, Police Brig. Gen. Romeo Caramat, head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, confirmed he, too, had received offers from informants wanting a cut of the seized drugs.
The police official backed the theory of Sen. Raffy Tulfo that the 42 kilos of shabu valued at P285.6 million recovered in the car of a narcotic operative and parked near the gate of Camp Crame on Oct. 15, 2022, could have been intended as the informants’ “reward.”
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