A person posing as a police officer was arrested in Rizal for alleged extortion.

The Philippine National Police-Integrity Monitoring Entrapment Group (PNP-IMEG) staged an entrapment operation at 5 p.m. on Sunday that led to the arrest of Robel Yap Canlas after receiving the marked money of P4,000 from the complainant, Maureen Coronel, a resident of Rodriguez, who was applying as a policewoman.