Rosales: Cauyan gave information on carjack operations

MANILA, Philippines – Police Director Roberto Rosales today said Superintendent Napoleon Cauyan had volunteered information regarding carjacking operations in the past, which the latter claimed to have yielded positive results.

Rosales, chief of the Northern Luzon Directorate for Integrate Police Operations, said Cauyan, a former head of the defunct Traffic Management Group of the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) Task Force Limbas, had not been under his command during his stint as National Capital Region Police Office head.

"He volunteered some pieces of information. It turned out most of information volunteered by Cauyan turned out to be true," Rosales said during a media briefing at Camp Crame in Quezon City this morning.

Rosales and Cauyan have been named by a newspaper article as among the protectors of carjackers, quoting an intelligence report.

Rosales said the arrest of two Land Transportation Office (LTO) personnel was the result of such information given by Cauyan.

He said two more LTO's plate division employees managed to evade arrest during the raid by authorities.

Asked if he conducted an investigation on Cauyan for his sources of information, Rosales said all the inputs volunteered to them had been validated.

He said he knew that Cauyan, now on floating status, had been saddled with several cases when the police official approached him with the information.

"I have heard those (cases) repeatedly. But I did not know what were these cases, which the Supreme Court already dismissed. Let the case of Cauyan rest," Rosales said. (report from Dennis Carcamo, Philstar.com)