THE Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) chief said he was considering the transfer of the acting Carcar police chief after assessing the police response of last Saturday’s Super Metro heist, where eight robbers escaped with their loot.
Senior Supt. Clifford Gairanod, CPPO chief, said lapses were seen in the police response like their delayed arrival at the crime scene, allowing the robbers to escape on motorcycles with the pieces of jewelry they stole from the pawnshop in the mall.
Gairanod earlier asked Supt. Brindo Nacario, acting Carcar police chief, to shape up.
Gairanod said he has yet to meet with Carcar Mayor Nicepuro Apura about his plan.
Nacario, for his part, said he would just wait for an order from his senior officers.
Gairanod also said they were looking at whether or not the heist was done by local boys or by the Martilyo Gang, a group that uses hammers in robbing pawnshops.
Gairanod also said that they were trying to identify the suspects through the still images of the robbers’ faces caught in the mall’s security camera.