Charges filed vs Baguio cops over bar gun firing, abuses
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BAGUIO CITY – A complaint was filed at the
Prosecutor’s Office here against a city police officer for alleged abuses
against a bar manager, bartender and customers inside Amarillo Bar here along
Legarda Road with responding cops included in the complaint.
Charges were filed against SPO4 Allan Piloy for allegedly slapping and
pointing his gun to the heads of victims then firing the weapon on Sept. 15
around 1 a.m.
Complainants Marvyn Ross B. Fana-ang, acting manager night and bartender
Jollimar Delos Reyes who filed their sworn statements Oct. 5 detailed what
happened backed by CCTV footage.
Fana-ang, whose parents hail from Bontoc and Sagada, Mountain Province
said he also filed a complaint against responding police officers for doing
nothing while Piloy shouted and slapped customers in their presence.
Complainants appealed to Cordillera regional police
director Rolando Nana to issue preventive suspension orders against Piloy and
involved cops while the case was ongoing.
The complaint included charges against police officers who allegedly
omitted or did not portray accurately facts in their report like omitting the
name of Piloy and their faulty certification of what transpired after they were
interviewed at the main city police station.
Fana-ang said it all started when two groups of customers engaged in a
brawl which complainants and bar employees tried to pacify.
After the fight stopped, Fana-ang said he heard a voice behind him saying
“Pulis ak. Sino ti lastog ditoy (I am a policeman. Who is arrogant here)?
Piloy then allegedly pointed his gun at Fana-ang and his co-workers
saying: “Dakayo ti siga ditoy (You are the ones who are arrogant here)?
Fana-ang said he tried to explain to Piloy they were Amarillo employees
but he wouldn’t listen. They noticed Piloy was drunk.
“ Suddenly,
SPO4 Allan Piloy pointed his gun near the head of Jollimar and fired a shot
which prompted me to bend down and put my hands over my head,” Fana-ang said.
“Then I heard my co-workers trying to tell the cop that I am their boss and we
are employees of the bar and were trying to pacify the brawl. I looked up and
saw SPO4 Allan Piloy still pointing his gun towards Jollimar while trying to
grab him.
And then he turned back to me while pointing his gun downwards over my
head.”
Fana-ang said Piloy violently kicked Delos Reyes many times even if he
was crouching on the floor in pain. “I held my head down for fear that Piloy
will shoot me.”
Fana-ang said he later saw two responding cops who approached members of
the groups that started the brawl. “Then Piloy and his male companion we later
came to know as Eric repeatedly slapped and kicked these two persons in the
presence of these two responding policemen.”
Responding cops brought these two persons and a man who threw a bottle
earlier that hit waiter Rolando Balidoy on the forehead to the police station,
he added.
Another set of responding cops reportedly went to the bar and took a copy
of the CCTV footage. Fana-ang told the cops a drunk cop (Piloy) in civilian
clothes fired his gun but they did not say anything.
At the police station, cops allegedly told Fana-ang and his group they
did not know Piloy.
They asked for a copy of the blotter but were told
that they will be given a copy once the cop who fired his gun is identified.
He said they later went back to get a copy of the blotter but the desk
officer, a certain Doctolero reportedly told them they cannot get a copy since
it was not signed by the fiscal.
Piloy reportedly later told Fana-ang and his elders and relatives to hold
in abeyance the filing of the case against him in a meeting at Amarillo Bar
where he allegedly admitted firing his gun.
In the police certification, Fana-ang said the true facts were not
reflected and Piloy’s name was not included even if he was identified already.
All these, Fana-ang said, made him file the case against Piloy and the
other cops.
Delos Reyes corroborated Fanaang’s affidavit.
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