5 PNP officials get new posts in latest reshuffle
FIVE ranking police officials will get new assignments in the latest reorganization of the Philippine National Police (PNP) effective May 6.
Based on PNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil’s order dated May 4, Police Regional Office-Caraga Director Brig. Gen. Eleazar Mata will be the director of the Drug Enforcement Group.
Mata will replace Brig. Gen. Dionisio Bartolome, who will be transferred to the Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit, Directorate for Personnel and Records Management.
Directorate for Police Community Relations chief Maj. Gen. Edgar Alan Okubo will be the new director of the Civil Security Group while Maritime Group Director Brig. Gen. Romaldo Bayting will be assigned as Area Police Commander (APC) Western Mindanao.
Philippine National Police Academy Director Brig. Gen. Jonathan Cabal will replace Bayting.
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Leo Francisco assumed office as the 48th director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in a turnover ceremony in Camp Crame, Quezon City on Friday.
Francisco replaced Maj. Gen Romeo Caramat Jr. who will take the post of Acting APC of Northern Luzon. The movement is necessary for Caramat to be promoted to lieutenant general.
Under Caramat’s term for over a year, the CIDG conducted 20,290 operations, arrested 22,802 suspects, confiscated PHP16.8 billion worth of evidence, and seized 2,652 firearms.
Francisco, on the other hand, wants all CIDG officers to the lowest ranks to be investigators.
Marbil said he has full confidence that all officers will exert their best efforts.
“Sa ating mga kapulisan (To our police officers), I urge you to always respect the law and value human life. Let us professionalize our beloved PNP dahil ang gusto ng pulis, ligtas ka (because the police want you to be safe),” Marbil said in a statement. By Christopher Lloyd Caliwan, Philippine News Agency
