Borbon police chief injured in accident

CEBU, Philippines - The police chief of Borbon town, northern Cebu is suffering from a cracked left leg after the patrol car that he was driving hit a mahogany tree in Sitio Libas, Barangay Campusong the other night.

Sr. Supt. Erson Digal, Cebu Provincial Police Office director, denied insinuations that Sr. Insp. Errol Francis Deveyra, who also sustained other injuries, was intoxicated during the incident.

Digal, however, said that Deveyra will be investigated for violating the standing policy that a driver, and not the police chief, should be driving the police service vehicle.

Deveyra was driving the Innova Patrol Car along the provincial highway with PO3 Fernando Velarde, PO3 Elpidio Mahumot and PO2 Rey Suson when the left front wheel of the car exploded.

Deveyra lost control of the car, which swerved to the left and hit a mahogany tree along the road. He was then taken to the nearest hospital and later transferred to Chong Hua Hospital in Cebu City .

Digal visited Deveyra in the hospital. He said Deveyra is well but has to undergo a CT Scan, X-RAY and other procedures.

 According to the CPPO director, he learned from the regular patrol car driver that Deveyra and his team were implementing warrants of arrest from early morning until evening. They even arrested one in the morning but failed to make arrests at night time.

After an hour of searching the person who was subject of the warrant, Deveyra went to police station to drop his men, and was on his way to his rented apartment near the station when the accident happened.

A security guard called the police station about the patrol car that bumped to mahogany tree.

 The PNP is trying to see what kind of help they can give to Deveyra.   (FREEMAN NEWS)