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Police Superintendent Santiago Ylanan Rapiz, assigned to the Logistics Branch of the Zamboanga del Norte Provincial Police Office, is killed in an anti-drug operation
DEAD. Police Superintendent Santiago Ylanan Rapiz is killed in a shootout with police on November 5, 2018. Photo courtesy of PRO-9
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – A police officer suspected of reselling confiscated illegal drugs was killed in a drug buy-bust operation in Dipolog City on Monday night, November 5.
Police Superintendent Santiago Ylanan Rapiz, assigned to the Logistics Branch of the Zamboanga del Norte Provincial Police Office, was killed in an anti-drug operation of the Philippine National Police-Counter-Intelligence Task Force (CITF) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA In front of Andres Bonifacio College Gymnasium, in Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte.
Police said Rapiz tried to flee and shot at them when he was cornered. He was rushed to the Corazon Aquino Hospital in Dipolog City, where he was pronounced dead on arrival by the physicians.
Police said that during the operation, an undercover cop posing as a buyer of a large transparent heat-sealed plastic sachet containing white crystalline substance believed to be shabu worth P50,000.
Rapiz's weapon, a caliber 45 pistol, was recovered from the crime scene.
Rapiz is suspected to be a "ninja cop" or police who recycled and resold confiscated illegal drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte, who has been in charge of the crime of drug trafficking, and who has recently been sentenced to the last year.
Police Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Luis Licup, Regional Police Office 9 chief, said the Dipolog buy-bust was a legitimate operation and was coordinated with PRO-9.
Licup also reminded the police that the regional office has been seriously implemented by an internal cleansing program.
Under the program, 31 cases were tested positive for illegal drug use while the others were arrested in the United States. Rappler.com
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