Tough job awaits new CIDG-NCR chief
IT WILL be a very tough job for this official who has been designated to head the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region Field Unit of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group on orders of PNP chief, General Benjamin C. Acorda Jr.
Colonel George B. Buyacao Jr. replaced Col. Hansel Marantan effective last January 30.
Buyacao took over a badly-depleted CIDG-NCRFU following the termination of designation of more than 40 officers and men of the unit that followed the relief of Marantan.
Marantan was transferred to the Office of PNP-CIDG director, Major Gen. Romeo M. Caramat Jr., while his men were transferred to the CIDG ARMD-PHAB office.
Also relieved from CIDG-NCRFU were Lieutenant Col. Joey T. Caise, the former CIDG-NCRFU assistant regional chief; Lt. Col. Eric V. Reverente, the former Manila District Field Unit chief of the unit; and Lt. Col. Stefanio Andrenicus A. Rabino, the chief of the NCRFU’s Southern District Field Unit.
The PNP-CIDG achieved a 99.6 percent crime clearance efficiency and an 84.29 percent crime solution efficiency last year, said Caramat.
Last year saw the PNP-CIDG under Caramat leading a successful search for illegal weapons reportedly being stocked by now dismissed Negros Oriental Representative Arnolfo ‘Arnie’ Teves and his brother Pryde inside a farm owned by Arnie in Sta. Catalina municipality.
The search supervised by Col. Marantan led in the arrest of three persons and the seizure of six rifles of various calibers.
The CIDG-NCRFU also arrested dozens of most wanted persons in the country last year and seized a big volume of illegal firearms and ammunition in separate operations in Metro Manila and neighboring provinces.
The same unit was also responsible for apprehending a number of big-time Filipino and foreign con artists and embezzlers, some of them wanted for defrauding several top government personalities and other influential people in the past.
