Cops axed over exec’s slay case

SAN LEONARDO, Nueva Ecija – For allegedly failing to respond to the killing of a barangay chairman here on Sept. 4, policemen stationed in a police community precinct here have been relieved and ordered investigated.

Senior Supt. Crizaldo Nieves, Nueva Ecija Police Provincial Office director, has replaced the police force in Barangay San Bartolome over operational lapses and for failing to assist relatives of slain barangay chairman Rodante Interior-Garcia shortly after he was shot.

He vowed to clean up the police force of inept officers.

Nieves replaced the police officers for failure to respond to the killing of barangay chairman Rodante Garcia.

The village leader was shot dead by motorcycle-riding men in front of his house, which is 50 meters away from the police community precinct last Sept. 5.

Nieves said he has ordered Chief Insp. Alexander Aurelio, chief of the municipal police, to solve the murder in three weeks.

Police have yet to determine the motive for the killing. – Manny Galvez and Sheen Crisologo