• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
An intelligence officer of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Bacolod City is in hot water after she was caught in a footage of a local bar showing off her firearm.
Renoir Baldovino, NBI-Bacolod District Office chief, has ordered Janna Marie Navales to surrender her firearm.
Baldovino said he also advised Navales to apologize to the owner and the employee of the restobar, whom she confronted, after reviewing the closed circuit television (CCTV) footages.
“I assure the public of no repetition of this kind of incident,” he added.
Navales and her friends had a drinking spree in the bar located along 18th Street on Nov. 24 until the next day.
After her group left, Navales returned and called the attention of the staff, as she insisted that she left her jacket at the table they occupied.
Baldovino said the CCTV footages showed that Navales was carrying her jacket and cellphone when she left the restobar.
One of the establishment’s CCTV cameras showed Navales holding her firearm behind her although she did not point it at the complainants.
Baldovino said that an investigation will be undertaken by the NBI Internal Affairs Division so “that there will be no bias” since Navales is assigned at the NBI Bacolod District Office.
While NBI personnel are exempted from the Commission on Elections gun ban, which will end Nov. 29, there is no justification to carry a firearm in resto bars, he added. | GB
