ACORDA REVAMPS PNP AGAIN
PHILIPPINE National Police chief General Benjamin C. Acorda Jr. on Thursday ordered another reshuffling of key PNP posts with the retirement of Area Police Command-Northern Luzon director Lieutenant General Felipe R. Natividad.
The new PNP reorganization saw erstwhile PNP Director for Intelligence Major Gen. Jon A. Arnaldo, a classmate of Gen. Acorda from Philippine Military Academy ‘Sambisig’ Class of 1991, being designated as the new APC-Northern Luzon commander vice Natividad.
Lt. Gen. Natividad, a member of PMA ‘Bigkis-Lahi’ Class of 1990, retired on Wednesday at the age of 56 after more than 37 years of sterling service in the police and military service.
Natividad used to be a Police Regional Office 4-A director in Calabarzon region who became a commander of the elite PNP Special Action Force and later the National Capital Region Police Office chief in Metro Manila during the late years of the former Duterte administration.
Maj. Gen. Arnaldo is expected to get his 3rd-star as APC-NL director as he will be retiring from the force on October 3 next year.
Brig. Gen. Ross C. Alvarado, of PNP Academy ‘Tagapagpatupad’ Class of 1992, on the other hand was installed as the new PNP Finance Service director following the designation of Brig. Gen. Bowenn Joey M. Masauding of PNPA ‘Sandigan’ Class of 1994 as the new Police Regional Office 9 director in Western Mindanao.
Erstwhile PRO9 director Brig. Gen. Neil B. Alisañgan, another PMA Class 1991 member, was designated as the new PNP Director for Plans while Brig. Gen. Robert Alexander A. Morico, also of PNPA Class 1992, was named as the new PNP Director for Intelligence.
Alinsañgan, retiring from the police force on September 5, 2025, will get his 2nd-star with his new position just like Brig. Gen. Morico, a veteran PNP intelligence officer who will retire on January 22, 2027, making him one of the youngest PNPA Class 1992 members in the 228,000-strong police force.
Also named to their new posts effective Thursday were Brig. Gen. Chito G. Bersaluna who was transferred from the APC-Western Mindanao to the PNP Directorate for Operations; Colonel Danilo A. Bacas from APC-WM to the PNP Directorate for Information Communications and Technology Management; Col. Jerico O. Baldeo from the PNP-DICTM to the Office of the Chief,PNP; Col. Gideon E. Dy from the OCPNP to the APC-WM; Co. Cesar T. Magsino from the Police Security and Protection Group to the OCPNP; and Col. Santiago D. Pascual III from the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group to the PSPG.
Baldeo was named as the new chief of the PNP Human Rights Affairs Office under the OCPO while Col. Dy is the new acting Executive Officer of the APC-WM.
Bersaluna was installed as the new acting PNP Deputy Director for Operations following the retirement last week of Brig. Gen. Andrew D. Cayad of PNPA Class 1994. Cayad also used to be a PNP Intelligence Group director.
