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 Senior Police Officer 2 Helen Lapay Dela Cruz
Women and Children Protection Desk Investigator National Capital Region, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (NCR-CIDG) Sasa, Davao City To the charges that the PNP is ineffectual and corrupt, we offer up the record of Senior Police Officer 2 Helen Lapay dela Cruz, Investigator for the Women and Children Protection Desk of NCR-Criminal investigation and Detection Group (NCR-CIDG). A lawyer and criminologist by education, SPO2 Dela Cruz is one of the finest detectives of the PNP: a record-holder of her kind, and a defender of women’s and children’s rights by avocation.
Consider the case of the South African woman raped by two suspects inside the San Juan City police station, which SPO2 Dela Cruz investigated and concluded with a case filed at the San Juan City Prosecutor’s Office within five days of the incident. This earned her plaudits from the South African embassy, which graced her with a courtesy visit to the CIDG after the case was filed. Cases of minors undergoing sexual and physical abuse from male relatives have become a staple of her agenda – fortunate, as she almost always brings them to justice. She has also made her name with less sensational cases, taking vital roles in buy-bust operations on illegal drug traders, the arrest of a suspect swindling nursing board examiners by posing as a physician connected with the Philippine Regulatory Commission, raids on knock-off apparel and electronics stores, and entrapment operations for the takedown of a pyramiding scam. |
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