2 Isabela town cop chiefs axed

ILAGAN, Isabela , Philippines – Two municipal police chiefs were sacked the other day for “administrative and operational lapses” at the height of typhoon “Pedring” early this week.

“We cannot afford to consider such incompetence in our next rescue and relief operations on the incoming onslaught of typhoon ‘Quiel,’” Senior Superintendent Jimmy Rivera, Isabela police director, told The STAR. Quiel pummeled the province yesterday.

Sacked were Chief Inspectors Genato Birung and Alejandrino Gannaban, of Alicia and Angadanan towns, respectively.

Gannaban was under fire for reporting the drowning of a 22-year-old Angadanan housewife who turned out to be alive.

Birung, on the other hand, was reportedly nowhere to be found at the height of Pedring.