MANILA, Philippines — Anti-drug operatives from the Quezon City Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) pointed fingers at each other during the Senate probe on their alleged misencounter last February.
During the hearing of the Senate committee on public order, Police Maj. Sandie Caparroso, team leader of QC Police, gave his version of the February 24 bloody encounter with PDEA agents during a buy-bust operation near a mall on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City.
Two police officers and two from PDEA— an agent and an informant—werekilled in the crossfire.
While the anti-drug operatives were shooting at each other, Caparroso recalled his verbal exchange…
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