BACOLOD City – Police Colonel Manuel Placido was relieved from his post as director of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) yesterday.
He failed to solve the series of killings in the city, said Police Brigadier General Rolando Miranda, director of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6).
Placido, who served for 11 months as BCPO director, was replaced by Police Colonel Thomas Joseph Martir in a turnover ceremony yesterday.
He was assigned in Camp Crame as chief of the Explosives and Ordnance Division (EOD) of the Philippine National Police.
Prior to his assignment here, Martir was assigned in the Police Security and Protection Group (PSPG).
Martir is not new to Bacolod, according to Miranda. He had served police stations here and in Negros Occidental.
He also became chief of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion in Negros Island Region (NIR).
Among the killings that the BCPO under Placido failed to solve was that of Police Staff Sergeant Joseph Nepomoceno, a member of the City Drug Enforcement Unit of BCPO.
Nepomoceno was shot to death by riding in-tandem gunmen on Aug. 29.
Another unsolved case was the death of Mark Anthony Cubos of Aguinaldo Street whose body was found with 26 gunshot wounds in Barangay Banago on Sept. 20.
On Aug. 31, drug suspect Glenn Paul Castillo of Barangay Cabug was shot, stabbed and beheaded on Rosario Street, Barangay 38.
His head was recovered almost three kilometers away in Purok Sigay, Barangay 2.
Miranda challenged Martir to focus on solving and preventing crimes and stopping the proliferation of illegal drugs./PN
