The National Police Commission has upheld its earlier decision to dismiss six former Moises Padilla policemen for arresting then vice mayor and now Mayor Ella Garcia-Yulo and her husband Felix Yulo III at a checkpoint in 2017.
The couple accused the policemen of harassing and planting evidence against them.
The new decision dated March 4, 2022, and released to the media Wednesday, April 27, was signed by Acting Staff Service Chief Chito Bustonera of the NAPOLCOM Legal Affairs Service.
The NAPOLCOM ordered the Philippine National Police to dismiss the policemen from the service within five days from receipt of its order.
NAPOLCOM has also ordered the cancellation of their police eligibilities, forfeiture of retirement benefits, except accrued leave credits, and perpetual disqualification from holding public office are likewise imposed.
NAPOLCOM junked the appeal of the six policemen to its earlier decision to dismiss them for grave misconduct and grave irregularities in the performance of duty.
The couple were arrested and imprisoned for possession of drugs, firearms, and grenades, which the policemen said were seized from them at a Moises Padilla checkpoint in 2017.
The Yulos, who spent seven months in jail, insisted that the evidence against them were planted by the police. They were later released on bail. Yulo was elected as mayor in 2019.
The then town police chief, Capt. Allan Reloj, has already retired from the service and the other policemen involved in the case are no longer assigned to the town.
Some of them are no longer on duty.*