Manila traffic chief sacked

The head of the Manila Police District’s (MPD) traffic unit and her subordinate were sacked from their posts after one of them was caught collecting weekly payola from operators of buses, particularly those passing the Lawton area.

Relieved from their posts were Traffic Enforcement Unit head Chief Supt. Lucile Faycho and Police Officer 2 Joseph Buan, who was captured on July 28 in an entrapment operation set up by operatives of the Counter Intelligence Task Force (CITF), according to MPD spokesman Supt. Erwin Margarejo.