Political killings isolated cases, says Quezon City police

The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) maintained that the killings of a number of prominent personalities in the city are "isolated" cases and have nothing to do with security measures being implemented by the local police.

Superintendent Frank Mabanag, chief of the Quezon City Police District-Criminal Investigation Unit (QCPD-CIDU), also noted that there was no pattern in the killings of prominent personalities, including Abra Rep. Luis Bersamin, Ilagan (Isabela) Mayor Delfinito Albano, Quezon City Judge Nathaniel Patugalan, and the ambush of Quezon province congressional candidate Vicente Rabaya Jr.

Mabanag gave assurances that the QCPD is doing its best to solve all the cases by putting up measures to prevent any killing.

He said the QCPD under Senior Superintendent Magtanggol Gatdula has started analyzing the cases to be able to come up with security measures to prevent other possible killings.

Meanwhile, police are now tracing the owners and last occupants of the abandoned house in Quezon City where a cache of explosives and ammunitions were recovered last Sunday.

Gatdula ordered yesterday Superintendent Geraldo Ratuita, station commander of QCPD-Talipapa, to check the details and information from the documents seized by police among the explosives and ammunitions. – With Katherine Adraneda