Female complainant files counter-affidavit to drug possession complaint filed by Mabolo police officers
A complaint for prevention suspension and temporary relief and transfer of eight police officers from the Mabolo police station was filed last Friday against the Cebu City Police Office.
The complaint addressed to Senior Supt. Benjamin Santos, Cebu City Police Office (CPPO) chief, asked him to implement this action against eight police officers (names withheld pending their reply to the accusation against them) to prevent their forestalling possible destruction and suppression of evidence, and proliferating fabricated testimonies.
Action on the complaint will also prevent the accused police officers from engaging in any activity that may affect the outcome of the investigation.
Eight Mabolo police officers are being accused of robbery, extortion, sexual assault and insidious machination.
The female complainant, who is currently detained at the Mabolo police station, has also asked in the complaint to be transferred to another facility to ensure her life, safety and well-being.
This after the Mabolo police officers filed an earlier complaint at the Cebu City Prosecutors office accusing her of drug possession.
Counter-affidavit
The complainant last Friday, through lawyer Ophie Easter Bragat, one of the complainant’s legal counsels, filed last Friday her counter-affidavit at the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office.
They filed this after submitting their complaint for suspension and transfer of the police officers at the CCPO.
According to the complainant in her counter-affidavit, she was merely waiting for her boyfriend in his rented room in Barangay Apas, Cebu City, last month when the officers arrived.
The complainant claimed in her counter-affidavit that despite the absence of a search warrant, the police officers allegedly made her take out the contents of her bag, destroyed and opened the vault owned by her boyfriend, and allegedly removed the valuables inside the vault.
She also claimed that the police officers allegedly ordered her to raise her shirt and lower her shorts. They then touched her inappropriately, with someone even squeezing her derriere under the pretext of frisking her.
The complainant also claimed in her counter-affidavit that on their way to the fiscal’s office, the police officers made her choose between two possible charges that could be filed against her — one for possession of 0.6 grams (not specified what drugs) on the condition that she allegedly pay them P100,000, or she would be charged for possession of 25 grams of drugs.
The complainant also filed a formal demand for the return of the items allegedly taken by the police officers, along with a formal apology for taking the items.
The complainant earlier filed a complaint of insidious machination and extortion against the police officers and had earlier in a demand letter asked for a formal apology for their alleged sexual assault on her.
The complainant claimed that the items taken from her boyfriend included a Bulgari watch, pieces of jewelry, monies and the personal vault owned by the complainant’s boyfriend.