Armamento

Highest ranked PNPA grad keen on doing job

April 21, 2023 People's Journal 2461 views

LIEUTENANT General Rhoderick C. Armamento on Thursday maintained their solid support to the Philippine National Police leadership’s effort to ensure that all’s well in the organization tasked to serve and protect the Filipino nation.

The highest-ranked graduate of the PNP Academy in the 227,000-strong police force at present, Lt. Gen. Armamento is currently the director of the Area Police Command-Southern Luzon which he has commanded since April 20, 2022.

The official is a known follower of teachings from good leaders past and present. One of his favorites is a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”

Eleanor Roosevelt is the wife of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt who made history as the longest-serving First Lady of the United States.

Retiring on June 30, 2024, Armamento finished his secondary education at Quezon National High School in 1984 and AB Political Science degree at the Enverga University in 1987 before entering the PNPA.

He graduated as a member of PNPA ‘Tagapamayapa’ Class of 1990 before taking his Master of Arts in Public Management degree at the Araullo University.

Also known as a highly decorated and well-rounded officer, Lt. Gen. Armament has also gone through an array of different military and police trainings and courses here and abroad.

He is a noted public servant who, as chief of the Valenzuela City Police Station, he got the first Golden Eagle Award during the PNP Performance Governance System (PGS) Initiation Stage in 2013.

He was meritoriously promoted to the rank of Police Superintendent after a successful police operation against a notorious car theft syndicate operating in Metro Manila, Central Luzon, and Calabarzon regions in 2002.

He was a Hall of Fame Awardee of The Search for Outstanding Lakan of the PNPA Alumni Association Inc. (PNPAAAI) in 2013 and was a recipient of the prestigious Quezon Medalya ng Karangalan in 2018 — a manifestation of his undeniable commitment and leadership to the police service. Moreover, he is an expert in the field of police intelligence, investigation, operations and digital governance.

Being the Head Supervisor of Contact Tracing Task Group of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group under the Department of Health Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit, he made history as he led the unit tasked to conduct immediate contact tracing when the first case of COVID infection reportedly entered the Philippines on January 21, 2020.

As a former director of the PNP Directorate for Information and Communications Technology Management, he spearheaded the conduct of S.M.A.R.T. Policing Projects by conducting caravans to various Police Regional Offices to boost awareness on the PNP’s digital transformation program and upscale the technical capacity of the police on the ground particularly in the sphere of cybersecurity and data privacy.

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