2 cops prove there are still heroes
Published: August 30, 2005
DEFENSE Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. may have had Police Officer 2 Guinan Ibrahim and PO1 Jose Calibuso in mind when he said the other day that heroes were not necessarily to be found in the trenches.
Yesterday, Ibrahim and Calibuso not only collared a robbery suspect whose gang had killed a businessman, they also returned intact to the victim’s relatives the more than P1 million in cash and checks the robbers had stolen.
“These are the heroes of the Northern Police District,” said Director Vidal Querol, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office.
Chief Superintendent Raul Gonzales, NDP director, said: “They returned the money intact. Not a centavo was missing.”
Talking about heroes at a National Heroes Day ceremony on Sunday, Secretary Cruz said that battles today were no longer fought in the trenches but in how people lived their lives every day.
Speaking at the same ceremony, historian Ambeth Ocampo said heroism took different forms and shapes.
The two policemen were doing their rounds near the Navotas Fish Port Complex when they learned at around 8 a.m. that a robbery was taking place inside.
On board a motorcycle, they sped toward Gate 2 of the fish port and saw Jojo Gregorio, 24, fleeing with a bag.
MONEY CAN’T TEMPT THEM. PO2 Guinan Ibrahim and PO1 Jose Calibuso won praise after nabbing suspect Jojo Gregorio Tan (middle) and returning over P1 million a gang had stolen from a Navotas businessman.
NAVOTAS ROBBERY
2 cops prove there are still heroes
First posted 04:14am (Mla time) Aug 30, 2005
By Luige A. del Puerto, Nancy C. Carvajal
Inquirer News Service
Editor’s Note: Published on page A1 of the Aug. 30, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
DEFENSE Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. may have had Police Officer 2 Guinan Ibrahim and PO1 Jose Calibuso in mind when he said the other day that heroes were not necessarily to be found in the trenches.
Yesterday, Ibrahim and Calibuso not only collared a robbery suspect whose gang had killed a businessman, they also returned intact to the victim’s relatives the more than P1 million in cash and checks the robbers had stolen.
“These are the heroes of the Northern Police District,” said Director Vidal Querol, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office.
Chief Superintendent Raul Gonzales, NDP director, said: “They returned the money intact. Not a centavo was missing.”
Talking about heroes at a National Heroes Day ceremony on Sunday, Secretary Cruz said that battles today were no longer fought in the trenches but in how people lived their lives every day.
Speaking at the same ceremony, historian Ambeth Ocampo said heroism took different forms and shapes.
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two policemen were doing their rounds near the Navotas Fish Port Complex when they learned at around 8 a.m. that a robbery was taking place inside.
On board a motorcycle, they sped toward Gate 2 of the fish port and saw Jojo Gregorio, 24, fleeing with a bag.
Money in belt bag
Police said that some 10 minutes earlier, Gregorio and two other men, identified as John John Tabio and an “Anton,” allegedly held up businessman Arnel Camua as he was boarding a private jeep.
Camua, in his 40s, was carrying some P539,000 in cash and P649,000 in checks in a belt bag. His in-law, Ricardo, said Camua was going to deposit the money in a bank.
Police said Camua might have tried to fight off the robbers because they stabbed him in the neck and back.
Camua was declared dead at the Tondo General Hospital.
Police have launched a manhunt for the two other robbers.
A rookie cop
Ibrahim, a policeman for three years, and Calibuso, a rookie, said taking the money or a part of it never crossed their minds.
“I’m a Muslim, and it’s against the law,” Ibrahim told the Inquirer.
“I wouldn’t think of that,” said Calibuso. “I just want to do my job the best way I know it.”
To make sure everything was transparent, the two lawmen opened the bag filled with money only at police headquarters so everybody could see.
They also recovered two knives from the crime scene.
Gonzales said he would recommend awards for the two policemen.
Modern-day heroes
At Sunday’s ceremony at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, Taguig Mayor Freddie Tinga lamented that people who thought of nothing but themselves were the ones heard or written about in the media.
“I see greed, I see indifference, I see apathy. It’s the heroes I do not see,” he said. Yet, if one only looks in the right places, one would find heroes, he added.
“They include,” he said, “a policeman who refuses to accept a bribe [or ask for one], and performs his job despite the dangers and temptations involved.”
Navotas police chief Superintendent Genesis Tolejano said of Ibrahim and Calibuso: “[They] are the best examples that there are still more good cops than bad ones.”
Navotas Mayor Toby Tiangco commended the two policemen.
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