It is to the credit of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) that it didn’t spare one of its members, Senior Insp. Ramon G. Castillo, who got involved in the illegal drugs trade.
Castillo was killed in a shootout with his fellow cops who tried to arrest him after he was caught red-handed selling drugs that he had confiscated from drug pushers.
If the QCPD let Castillo pass because he was an official—and a supervisor at that—of the district’s anti-illegal drugs division, then the current campaign against drug pushers, dealers and traffickers would be considered a joke.
Castillo’s death has probably sent chills down the spine of wayward members of Philippine National Police who think they are above the law.
The message is clear: Nobody is spared in Digong Duterte’s war on drugs.
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I recall that a woman and her teenaged daughter came to me last year and complained that her common-law husband, PO2 Miguel Cordero Jr., was a drug addict.
Cordero, who at that time was a member of the QCPD’s anti-illegal drugs unit, tried to burn down their house in Pasig City while he was high on “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride).
Cordero has since gone on absence without official leave (Awol). A criminal case that my program, “Isumbong Mo Kay Tulfo,” helped file is pending in the Pasig City Regional Trial Court.
What am I trying to say here? There are so many policemen who are drug addicts or involved in the illegal drugs trade.
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The war on drugs will become even more credible if some politicians, members of the media or show business, clergymen and government prosecutors (formerly called fiscals) are exposed for their involvement in the illegal trade.
The citizenry would even rejoice if those guys suffer the same fate as Castillo’s.
The involvement of some politicians, a member of the clergy and government prosecutors in the drug trade was intimated to this columnist by Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, the PNP chief.
Regarding the involvement of at least two media or show biz personalities, I got the tip from a parent whose daughter got addicted to shabu.
When I checked with some persons in authority about these personalities, they told me the two had been placed under surveillance.
Both are very famous: one is a society page columnist, the other a TV personality.
Both own a bar at Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.
These two must be stopped because they have victimized so many young people.
They distribute shabu and ecstasy, a sex-boosting drug, through pushers in the bar.
Exposing them in public would be worse than killing or executing them.
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By the way, an official of a TV network is hooked on cocaine, the narcotics of rich people, according to a reporter of the network.
By golly, how could this network sermonize against illegal drugs when one of its officials is a drug user!?