SPO1 Balili’s burial set on Sunday

SPO1 Roderick Balili, then under the Cebu Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB), during a drug raid in Purok Golden Duranta, Sitio Tabuk, Liloan, Cebu on August 25, 2014. CDN photo ARCHIVE

Controversial policemen SPO1 Roderick Balili will be laid to rest on Sunday.

His father Hilario said that if they were to chose, they wanted to give his son a simple funeral rites.

The father of the SPO1 Balili, however, disclosed that they were told by police authorities that his son will be given full police honors.

The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) has declared earlier that Balili died of accidental firing during a surveillance operation in Pinamungajan town, Cebu.

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