4 cops awarded for nab of rebel

From the Visayan Daily Star (Nov 20): 4 cops awarded for nab of rebel

The police chief of Cadiz City and three police non-commissioned police officers were awarded the Medalya ng Kasanayan yesterday by the Police Regional Office 6 for the arrest of an alleged finance officer of the Komiteng Rehiyonal-Negros last month. The medal recipients were Supt. Noel Mana-ay, Cadiz police chief, and three of his staff, Senior Police Officer 3 Ramil Lucero and Police Officers 3 Mansueto de Jose and Gerald Bacolado. Mana-ay and the three police personnel were cited for the arrest of Sarah Alvarez, who is also tagged by the police as the assistant commander of the Jean Pelle Command of the NPA in northern Negros, as well as a volunteer of the Karapatan-Negros, the PRO6 Public Information Office said. Alvarez has pending arrest warrants for murder and robbery-in-band, issued by Cadiz Regional Trial Court Judge Renato Muñez, police records show. She, however, dismissed them as “trumped-up charges”. The Cadiz RTC also denied Alvarez, who has the alias of “Ka Olsen”, bail, for murder charges, that stemmed from the death of 1Lt. Archie Polenzo, commander of the 62nd Infantry Battalion Bravo Company, on February 2010. Alvarez claimed in a radio interview that, because of the frustration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to cripple the NPA revolutionary movement in Negros, ordinary civilians are now being targeted by the military. Alvarez was also linked to the raid on a fish farm owned by Joseph Edgar Sarrosa, a nephew of Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr., in Cadiz City, in 2011.

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2012/November/20/police.htm