Ani­ka Gumbs-San­di­ford

Two po­lice cor­po­rals and two con­sta­bles, who al­leged­ly stole mon­ey from a San Fer­nan­do casi­no and hid it in their un­der­gar­ments and in­side their po­lice shirts, are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a mag­is­trate to­day to an­swer charges aris­ing out of the in­ci­dent. Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gilbert Reyes re­it­er­at­ed yes­ter­day that there was a ze­ro tol­er­ance ap­proach to deal with rogue po­lice of­fi­cers. "We are us­ing every at­tempt to weed out the cor­rupt and dis­hon­est po­lice of­fi­cers." Three of the of­fi­cers were grant­ed bail in the sum of $150,000 each on Fri­day by Jus­tice of the Peace, Akhbar Khan, on the con­di­tion that they sur­ren­der their pass­ports.

Re­ports are that on Au­gust 21, armed rob­bers stormed Club Av­enue Five in Dun­can Vil­lage, and es­caped with $38,000. The two men, po­lice said, be­tween the ages 21 and 29 were as­sist­ing po­lice with in­ves­ti­ga­tions. How­ev­er, af­ter sur­veil­lance tapes were re­viewed there were im­ages of men wear­ing po­lice uni­forms stash­ing cash un­der their cloth­ing. In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve that the po­lice of­fi­cers were un­aware that a hid­den cam­era was lo­cat­ed in the room where the vault is kept. The tape was for­ward­ed to a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer, who in­struct­ed that charges be laid against the po­lice of­fi­cers.