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Cop relieved for deploying infected police personnel
By J.Lo
"This should serve as reminder to all our commanders to exercise prudence and to strictly abide with our existing protocols amid serious threat of COVID-19, especially with rising number of infection from Delta variant," Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, chief of the PNP in a statement said Philippine National Police has ordered administrative relief of the Talipapa police station commander, Police Lt. Col. Cristine Tabdi, for assigning 51 cops to the State of the Nation Address duty despite not having RT-PCR test results yet.
He called the incident "breach of protocol" due to command responsibility.
To recall, the Quezon City local government confirmed 82 police officers of the station tested positive for coronavirus. Fifty one of the positive cases had been on duty during President Rodrigo Duterte's State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 26,2021.
The infected cops have since been quarantined in facilities, while PNP has begun contact tracing its personnel.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosaro Vergeire also said deployment was breach of protocol, saying cops should not have been deployed if they did not know their test results yet.
According to Eleazar, it is still unclear if personnel were infected with Delta variant of the coronavirus. He urged the public not to make any speculations until the final results come out.
The PNP chief also decried what he said were "unnecessary and insensitive comments from some personalities about the unfortunate incident, let us not forget that the reason they were deployed is to ensure that the right of some of our compatriots to protest and express their views is peaceful and orderly, while also protecting the rights of motorists and our fellow commuters who are not interrupted by protest actions on the streets they regularly pass through".
Eleazar earlier vowed that PNP would practice maximum tolerance when dealing with protesters and would respect their right to freedom of assembly.
Police barriers were set up along Commonwealth Avenue on Monday morning, blocking the protest march earlier agreed upon by the Quezon City Police District, city government, and progressive groups.
Other protesters were also apprehended in North Caloocan while they were on their way to demonstrations. Their protest materials were also confiscated.
Two activists in Albay were also shot after they were caught spraying protest graffiti on a wall.
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