The Philippine National Police (PNP) will review its deployment of police officers for security operations following the death of a police officer in a traffic incident on his way home from duty during the State of the Nation Address (Sona).
‘The entire Philippine National Police expresses its condolences. We’re looking after the morale and welfare of every officer,’ PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said in Filipino in a chance interview with reporters in Camp Crame on Wednesday.
‘How we will address that is by conducting the proper investigation. After that, we’ll do the recalibration or look at the deployment… Then, we’ll get to releasing the benefits of that police officer,’ he added.
In a statement earlier on Wednesday, Nartatez identified the late police officer as Patrolman Allan Chris Heredero, 33, an officer of the National Capital Region Police Office Mobile Force Battalion Administrative Holding Unit.
Heredero was traveling along C3 Road in Barangay 22 when he was run over by a 10-wheel truck early Tuesday morning after his Sona duty.
‘A relative said the officer had just completed a 24-hour Sona security duty and may have been exhausted before the crash,’ the PNP chief said.
‘A delivery rider who witnessed the incident said the police officer appeared to be swerving before the collision,’ he added.
The truck driver was taken into the custody of the Caloocan City Police Station and is awaiting charges of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide and damage to property