Mendoza’s travails began with illegal bust
BY RAYMOND AFRICA
ROLANDO del Rosario Mendoza was a senior inspector (equivalent to captain in the military) of the PNP and deputy chief of the Manila Police District’s mobile patrol unit.
Mendoza, 55, was dismissed from service on Feb. 16, 2009 after he and four other members of the Manila Police District’s Mobile Patrol Unit – Insp. Nelson Lagasca, SPO1 Nestor David, PO3 Wilson Gavino, and PO2 Roderick Lopeña -- were involved in robbery, robbery-extortion, grave threats and physical injuries involving a chef from Lipa City, Christian Kalaw.
Kalaw accused Mendoza and Gavino of concocting drug charges against him. This was after a visit to a relative at a condominium unit at Taft avenue and Vito Cruz, Manila on April 9, 2008.
Kalaw said he was accused by Mendoza and Gavino of illegal parking. They then inspected his vehicle and declared finding drugs in it.
Kalaw said Mendoza and his group then asked him to pay P200,000 so he would not be charged. Without money to give the policemen, he said he was then brought to an area near the Ospital ng Maynila where he was forced to "swallow" shabu. He was then brought to and held at the WPD Mobile Patrol Unit on UN avenue. He was released the following day after payment of P20,000.
He was meted a 90-day suspension (June 16, 2008 to Sept. 14, 2008) for the case filed by Kalaw, until his dismissal from service in February 2009.
Part of the PNP’s sanctions on Mendoza for his dismissal from service were forfeiture of retirement benefits and perpetual disqualification from government service.
Mendoza was one of the Ten Outstanding Policemen awardee by the Jaycees International in 1986.
Mendoza, born on Jan. 10, 1955 in Naic, Cavite, got a degree of Bachelor of Science in Criminology at the Philippine College of Criminology in Manila.
Mendoza became a probationary 2nd lieutenant on May 30, 1980, and then became a patrolman on April 30, 1981. He was absorbed in the PNP as a senior police officer 3 (equivalent to technical sergeant in the military) on Jan. 2, 1991.
Mendoza rose to become a police inspector (lieutenant in the military) on May 23, 2002, and was promoted to senior inspector on Aug. 16, 2005.
Mendoza has a brother assigned at the MPD Traffic Bureau, SPO2 Gregorio Mendoza, and a son, Insp. Bismark Mendoza, assigned with the Bangued PNP.
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