New PNP-AKG chief steps up drive vs most wanted persons
NEW Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) director, Colonel Rudolph B. Dimas on Sunday said he has ordered all AKG field units to further step-up their effort to account for most wanted persons in their jurisdiction as instructed by PNP chief, General Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar.
“I have instructed the AKG Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao Field Units as well as other AKG operating units to go all-out in accounting for all wanted persons in our list, specifically those who have been ordered arrested by the court,” said Dimas, a member of PNP Academy Class 1992.
A veteran PNP-AKG officer who used to be assigned at the Police Regional Office 4-A in Calabarzon and in PRO6 in Western Visayas region, Dimas said he wants his men to fully coordinate their manhunt operation with local territorial units.
Last Monday, the PNP-AKG director said his operatives arrested Jomar Tulod, a 28-year old tricycle driver tagged as the most wanted person in Taguig City during a manhunt operation in Signal Village in Lower Bicutan. He said the suspect has been in hiding for nearly five years already until he was apprehended.
Dimas said Tulod was arrested on the strength of a warrant of arrest for murder issued by Judge Mariam Bien of the Taguig City Regional Trial Court Branch 153 on June 29, 2016 with no bail recommended.
“We’re launching intelligence-driven operations to account for most wanted criminals in the country with the help of the community and other law enforcement agencies. This is now one of our main thrusts apart from going all out to neutralize kidnapping-for-ransom gangs and wanted kidnappers in the country,” Dimas said.
