Psycho cops
The Philippine Star|December 08, 2024
EDITORIAL

If this story is true, the Philippine National Police needs a thorough review of its policies on the mental health of its members.

Last Thursday in Baguio City, the local police dug up the dismembered body of Emmanuel Ballos de Asis, an executive master sergeant assigned at the Puerto Princesa Police Provincial Office in Palawan.

The remains were found in a vacant lot in the family home of another PNP officer, Lt. Col. Rhoderick Pascua.

Taguig City police probers said Pascua had given an extrajudicial confession, admitting that he shot De Asis dead in front of the killer's wife Rosemarie, also a police executive master sergeant.

Probers said Pascua had walked into his wife and De Asis "engaged in intimate relations" in the living room of the Pascua couple's home in Bicutan, Taguig.

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