PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) chief, General Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar on Monday installed Brigadier Gen. Gregory B. Bogñalbal as the new director of the PNP Highway Patrol Group.
Bogñalbal, a member of PNP Academy Class 1994 and erstwhile Senior Executive Assistant of the PNP chief replaced Brig. Gen. Alexander C. Tagum who has been named as the new Police Regional Office 12 (PRO12) director in Central Mindanao.

Tagum, a member of PNPA Class 1991, replaced Brig. Gen. Michael John F. Dubria of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) ‘Sambisig’ Class of 1991 who was designated as the new PNP Director for Intelligence last week on orders of Gen. Eleazar.

“I am confident that a sustained and stringent enforcement of traffic laws and regulations geared to eradicate carnapping, recover carnapped motor vehicles and apprehend traffic law violators through well-coordinated and joint operations with territorial units of the PNP and other partner agencies will be implemented under Brig. Gen. Bogñalbal’s leadership,” said the PNP chief.

Bogñalbal used to be operations chief of the PNP Special Action and was once a director of the Quirino Police Provincial Office.

Eleazar designated the new PNP-HPG director as his SEA shortly after he was appointed by President Duterte as the 26th PNP chief last May 8.

“As the Highway Czar and being the PNP’s cutting edge in ensuring safer and secure highways and streets in the country, may the HPG always be ready to respond to the citizens under threat or those calling for assistance. Effective law enforcement demands that the PNP should step up in ensuring the safety and security of the public to walk the streets unharmed and prevent criminally inclined the opportunity from consummating their criminal intentions” Eleazar said.

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