Posthumous Award for Caña: Family won’t press charges

TAGBILARAN CITY, Philippines – The family of Chief Inspector George Caña, chief of Ubay Police who was killed in a shootout, said they will not press charges against those responsible for his ambush on June 7 in Talibon town.

The fallen police official’s wife, Ann, issued this statement to The FREEMAN during yesterday’s 116th Philippine Independence Day celebration in this city where she and family received from the provincial government a posthumous award, honoring Caña

Ann, who attended the celebration with her husband’s mother and daughters, said, “Si Lord na ang bahala,” on the perpetrators.

She said that the family has yet to decide the date of Caña’s interment after the wake being held at their residence at Barangay Balintawak in Talibon town.

Caña was ambushed and killed with his body riddled by bullets along the national highway near his residence in Talibon. He was believed to be the target of the revenge from drug lords, as he had been receiving death threats for his no-let up drive against illegal drugs in Ubay town, where he served as the chief of police.

This prompted Senior Superintendent Dennis Palo Agustin, Bohol Police provincial director, to launch hot pursuit operations, the following day, which resulted in the death of six suspects who refused to surrender to authorities when surrounded by the latter at a resort in nearby town of Bien-Unido.

Four others, one of them a minor, believed to be comrades of the syndicate that ambushed Caña “peacefully” surrendered to the authorities. (FREEMAN)