A POLICE officer was arrested for extortion on Saturday night in Cavite, an intelligence unit of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Sunday.

Sr. Supt. Romeo Caramat, chief of the PNP-Counter-Intelligence Task Force chief, said Police Officer (PO) 2 Robin Robiso, assigned to the drug enforcement unit of Candelaria Municipal Police Station in Quezon province, was arrested based on a complaint by an unidentified civilian who alleged that the lawman demanded P25,000 in exchange for the non-filing of criminal charges against him.

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