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Michael Delizo

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<p>MANILA — The police chief of Marikina City has been administratively relieved pending an investigation into <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/28/marikina-policewoman-files-case-vs-2-fellow-officers-over-sexual-assault-2248">sexual offenses allegedly committed by two police officers against their female colleague</a>, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Monday.</p><p>“Rest assured that this will be taken care of and magkakaroon ng imbestigasyon ‘yan. Actually, naimbestigahan na ‘yan,” acting PNP chief Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. told reporters.</p><p>(There will be an investigation. Actually, it has already been investigated.)</p><p>Eastern Police District (EPD) Director Brig. Gen. Aden Lagradante said Marikina Police Chief Col. Geoffrey Fernandez was being investigated to determine if he was remiss in his functions and duties in overseeing his personnel.</p><p>He added that the probe would be “extensive” and would also cover the suspects’ colleagues, team leaders, chief supervisor, sector commander, station commander, and even the Women and Children Protection Desk.</p><p>The suspects’ substation commander was also administratively relieved, Lagradante added.</p><p>“Tinitingnan natin doon if may mga deficiency in terms of how they manage ‘yong team nila, kagaya ng mga naririnig natin na mag-isa lang ‘yong complainant o ‘yong offended party, that’s why nadaanan at nahikayat ng mga kasamahan niya na sumama,” Lagradante said.</p><p>(We are looking into possible deficiencies in how their team is managed, such as reports that the complainant or offended party was alone, which made it possible for her colleagues to approach and persuade her to join them.)</p><p>In an earlier report, two male officers allegedly picked up the patrolwoman on August 17 while she was on duty and invited her for coffee.</p><p>She was allegedly molested inside a police mobile along the jogging lane in Libis, Barangay Sto. Niño, around 9:30 p.m.</p><p>Administrative and criminal complaints for sexual assault and acts of lasciviousness have been filed against the two male officers—a patrolman and a police staff sergeant. They were <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/29/2-marikina-cops-reassigned-amid-ongoing-molestation-probe-1404">reassigned</a> to the District Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit of the EPD.</p><div><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0-rqA9W-mLw?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"/></div>

<p>The police chief of Marikina City has been administratively relieved pending an investigation into sexual offenses allegedly committed by two police officers against their female colleague, the PNP said. </p>

The police chief of Marikina City has been administratively relieved pending an investigation into sexual offenses allegedly committed by two police officers against their female colleague, the PNP said.

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Marikina police chief relieved from post over personnel’s molestation probe

Michael Delizo,

ABS-CBN News

Published September 01, 2025 09:25 AM PHT

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Updated September 01, 2025 08:37 PM PHT

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