10 cops who went AWOL joined Socorro ‘cult,’ says Surigao del Norte police chief
Surigao del Norte police chief Colonel Laudemer Laude says ten cops who had gone on absence without leave between 2019 to 2020 became members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc.
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00:00 Surigao del Norte Police Chief Colonel Lodomer Laude says 10 cops who had gone on absence
00:05 without leave between 2019 to 2020 became members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services
00:10 Incorporated.
00:12 In a joint Senate committee hearing on the controversial SBSI, Laude adds, two non-uniformed
00:17 police personnel who had also gone AWOL are found to be members of the group, including
00:21 a retired Army officer and a former firefighter.
00:25 The police and personnel who had gone AWOL had been dismissed from the service.
00:29 Deputy Minority Leader Risa Ontiveros says members of SBSI had been manipulated into
00:34 leaving their jobs and relocating to the hilltop settlement in Sitio Capihan, Barangay Sering
00:39 in Socorro Town, Surigao del Norte.
00:41 The SBSI is also accused of forcing children into marriage and military combat training.
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