POLICE officers, who were close friends of slain controversial cop, SPO1 Adonis Dumpit, reportedly are afraid of visiting his wake because of possible surveillance.
Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak said that there were many police officers who reached out to him but were hesitant to visit the wake.
"They are afraid some people might spy on them," he said.
He assured police officers that as long as they are not involved in illegal drugs, they have nothing to worry about.
Retired police officials, Chief Insp. Joseph Cañete, former deputy chief of the Mobile Patrol Group (MPG) of the Cebu City Police Office who had worked with SPO1 Adonis Dumpit when the latter was still a member of the Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) and Supt. Michael Bastes, former City Intelligence Branch (CIB) of CCPO, visited Dumpit's wake.
Both said that Dumpit was a good policeman who fought against criminals.
Dumpit's ex-wife, Josephine Gabuya, and his 24-year-old son, Norman, were the first to receive the body from the pier.
Councilor Margot was the first from the Osmeñas to visit the policeman followed by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña.
Dumpit's body arrived at 11 a.m. in the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes on Junquera St.
Margot choked back tears as she touched Dumpit's coffin.
"It's very hard for me to see him there. He's dead na, they killed him pa. That's what they said, he was down na they're still shooting at him," she said, her voice breaking.
The cop's common-law wife, Maria Ella Amores, also arrived in the evening from Tagbilaran City, Bohol, accompanied by 13 teens, the oldest was 23 and the youngest was 4, who said that Dumpit took them in his care.
"These were the unwanted kids in the neighborhood who are neglected by their parents, he took them under his wing. He fed them and also gave them money for school," Kleath Derence, 22, said.
The wake will be until Monday, Tumulak said, with the burial initially planned to be in the Queen City Memorial Garden.
It is open to the public. (JOB)