A MARITIME police officer was arrested in Basilan for alleged extortion, according to a task force that set up the entrapment operation.

The Counterintelligence Task Force (CITF) said its operatives, in coordination with members of the Special Action Force (SAF), arrested PO3 Basir Alam at the port of Isabela City where they validated a complaint that Alam was extorting from shippers from P500 to P1,000 in exchange for travel clearance to board vessels plying the Isabela City-Zamboanga City route.

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