Four members of the Manila police were held hostage for two hours by the personnel of a fellow police officer who allegedly maintains an illegal gambling house in the city’s Tondo district.

Initial reports said District Director Rolando Asuncion on Friday morning at about 9:45 a.m. ordered four police officers led by Insp. Ariel del Rosario to look into the report that another police officer identified as SPO2 Rolando Simbulan was maintaining a gambling house.

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