PNP-IAS: Sacked CIDG-8 chief, 17 other cops still under restrictive custody

The Philippine National Police-Internal Affairs Service on Saturday clarified that police officers involved in the killing of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. are still under restrictive custody.

"There is no lifting of their restrictive custody. They were just allowed to go home to get information for attachment on their counter-affidavit," PNP-IAS chief of staff Mmaria Lynberg Constantinopla said in a television interview.

Constantinopla said that Senior Superintendent Marvin Marcos, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Region 8, and 17 others were being secured by policemen from the Personnel and Holding and Accounting Unit (PHAU).

"They are being supervised by the PNP personnel in charge of them," she said.

She added that Marcos and the others were ordered to return to Camp Crame and submit the attachments by Monday.

She said they will be immediately returned to the PHAU's office after the submission of the attachments.

PNP-IAS chief Leo Angelo Leuterio said on Friday that Marcos and the others were allowed to return to Leyte to prepare their counter-affadavits.

They were supposed to submit their counter-affidavits on Friday.

The policemen were ordered placed under restrictive custody upon orders of PNP chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa following the death of the late Albuera mayor.

Espinosa was killed by members of the CIDG Region 8 operatives during the implementation of a search warrant inside his cell at the Leyte Sub-Provincial Jail in Baybay City early last month. —ALG, GMA News