Manila, Philippines (AP)-Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has fired his national police chef, who received attention for the leading of the individual arrests of former president Rodrigo Duterte on orders of the International Criminal Court and televangelist Apollo Carrreon Quiboloy, who on the FBIs must have Most-Wanted List, Philippine, Philippine trade trade Philippine Sexhandel, Philippine Sexhandel, Tuesday.
Executive secretary Lucas Bersamin mentioned no reason for the removal of General Nicolas Torre as head of the 232,000 members of the National Police, a position he was appointed by Marcos in May and that he would have held until 2027. He will be replaced by another Senior Police General, Jose SamenCio Nartatez Jr. who took the best post Tuesday.
In a letter to Torre, on Tuesday, Bersamin informed him about his immediate removal as a national police chief on orders from Marcos and sent him “to guarantee the correct turnover of all matters, documents and information in relation to your office.”
Torre was not immediately available for comment.
Prior to his removal, Torre reportedly had differences with government officials about the National Police Chief decision to remove more than a dozen police officers from their posts, including Nartatez. The National Police Committee ordered this month to restore the repair of the police officers to their posts, but apparently that was not done immediately.
“He has not violated laws, he is not criminal or administratively charged, it is simply a choice of the president to take a new direction for the National Police,” said the Interior Minister Jonvic Remulla without working in a press conference when Torre was removed.
Marcos and Torre had a “beautiful and productive relationship,” Remulla said, but he added without “we are a country of laws and not from men, that the institutions must be larger than the people who run it.”
Only the president can specifically answer why Torre was removed, Remulla said. It is not clear whether Torre would receive a different government report.
Only a few days ago, Torre demonstrated a new anti-criminal combat room to Marcos in the National Police headquarters, where officers could quickly communicate via two-way radio and other communication system to respond to a law and order problem in five minutes or less.
In March, Torre led the chaotic arrest of Duterte at the International Airport of Manila and his transfer to the detention of the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands for his deadly antidrug performance. Duterte, who ended his six -year presidential term in 2022, has been accused of a crime against humanity for the brutal campaign against illegal drugs when he was in office and who mainly let thousands of poor suspects dead in the police cultivated by the police, other western governments and human rights watch dog.
Duterte has denied that the orders of the executions of drug suspects, but has publicly threatened having suspected that drug traders were killed while he was an old mayor of Southern Davao City and later as president.
Last year, Torre supervised the arrest of the Filipino religious leader Apollo QuiBoloy, an important supporter of Duterte who was placed on the most desired list of the FBI after he had been charged for sexual abuse and trade in the US Torre in the US. Vast religious complex in the south of Davao City.
QuiBoloy and his lawyers have denied the charges.
QuiBoloy has since been locked up in a metropolitan prison in Manila for three criminal cases comparable to his cases in the US, who, according to the Filipino ambassador in Washington Jose Manuel Romualdez, has sought his extradition.
