Panel to probe Angeles cop chief on media raps

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga — Chief Superintendent Alejandro Lapinid, Central Luzon police director, has created a fact-finding committee to investigate allegations of "arrogance" toward the media and "gross incompetence" which the Pampanga Press Club (PPC) has hurled against the police chief of Angeles City.

Lapinid said Senior Superintendent Policarpio Segubre is now on "mandatory leave" to pave the way for the investigation by the committee headed by Senior Superintendent Oscar Marinas, with Superintendents Melchor Reyes and Abelardo Villacorta and Chief Inspector Aris Manansala as members.

The creation of the committee was an offshoot of a resolution which the 56-year-old PPC passed last Oct. 11 declaring Segubre persona non grata "for acts of arrogance toward the media and gross incompetence in the performance of his duties, thereby exposing the city to a clear and present danger."

Segubre, however, apologized to PPC members after the resolution was passed.

He credited himself for being the only Angeles City police chief who totally wiped out video karera operations in the city. — Ding Cervantes