Mindanaotoday.com | Academician cop killed in Maguindanao ambush
By: Ferdinandh Cabrera
COTABATO CITY – The chief of police of the municipality of Ampatuan in Maguindanao, who is also known as an academician with post-graduate degrees from the University of the Philippines in Diliman and other universities – and one of his men were killed in an ambush Tuesday morning, sketchy reports said.
Killed were Lt. Reynaldo Samson and a still unidentified policeman during a “One-Time-Big-Time” operation in Ampatuan, said Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon, regional police chief of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Guyguyon said Samson and his men were about to serve a warrant of arrest but were instead waylaid by the subjects of their operation in Barangay Kapinpilan in Ampatuan town at 9:40 a.m.
Reports received from Maguindanao police said that several other policemen in the said operation were severely wounded.
Investigations are still ongoing, police said.
Samson’s LinkedIn page said he is a training and security specialist at the government-run Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC).
He earned his doctor of philosophy (peace and security administration) from the Bicol University in Legazpi City in 2015 and finished a post-doctorate degree (public management) from the National College of Public Administration and Governance at UP Diliman in 2020.
Killed were Lt. Reynaldo Samson and a still unidentified policeman during a “One-Time-Big-Time” operation in Ampatuan, said Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon, regional police chief of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Guyguyon said Samson and his men were about to serve a warrant of arrest but were instead waylaid by the subjects of their operation in Barangay Kapinpilan in Ampatuan town at 9:40 a.m.
Reports received from Maguindanao police said that several other policemen in the said operation were severely wounded.
Investigations are still ongoing, police said.
Samson’s LinkedIn page said he is a training and security specialist at the government-run Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC).
He earned his doctor of philosophy (peace and security administration) from the Bicol University in Legazpi City in 2015 and finished a post-doctorate degree (public management) from the National College of Public Administration and Governance at UP Diliman in 2020. (MindaNews)
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