ILOILO City – Drug suspect Police Officer 1 Dorben Acap has been given a 30-day ultimatum to report to the Police Regional Office 6’s (PRO-6) Regional Headquarters Support Group (RHSG), his mother unit, or he would be declared AWOL (absent without leave).
According to Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao, regional police director, Acap has yet to report to work two weeks after he was released from The Medical City where he had been confined for several days after he was ambushed on June 26.
Acap, nephew of Iloilo City councilor Lyndon Acap, was classified a high-value drug target by the Iloilo City Police Office.
“Kung hindi pa s’ya mag-report by the second week of August, he will be marked AWOL. Dapat mag-file s’ya ng leave or else ma-AWOL siya at ma-dismiss from the service,” said Bulalacao.
Acap’s mobile phone could not be contacted, he added.
The 35-year-old Acap was shot while driving his red Honda Civic car in Barangay Dulonan, Arevalo district.
He was hit on the left shoulder but managed to fire back at his attackers – two men on a motorcycle – and hit one of them.
Acap managed to identify one of the men. His suspect was a policeman from Bacolod City assigned at the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), Police Officer 2 Melvin Mocorro. He had reportedly taken a 15-day vacation leave from his assignment at the Regional Public Safety Battalion of the police in the ARMM.
Acap, nephew of father and son drug suspects Marque Acap. Sr. and Marque Jr. currently detained at the Iloilo District Jail in Barangay Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo, charged Mocorro with frustrated murder.
Acap was formerly a member of the city police’s anti-illegal drug team and the regional police’s anti-illegal drug task force.
He denied any involvement in illegal drugs./PN
