PRO8 reshuffles officers in Leyte, N. Samar provincial offices

By RPCRD, Police Regional Office 8
July 9, 2013

CAMP KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte – Two third level officers of Police Regional Office 8 (PRO8) were designated to new positions in a routine reshuffling of personnel holding key police positions in the region with the Leyte Police Provincial Office having a new Officer In-Charge effective Friday, more than a week after PRO8 designated an OIC in Northern Samar.

PRO8 director PCSupt. Elmer Ragadio Soria has designated PSSupt. Brigido B. Unay vice PSSupt. Pio L. Manito as OIC of the Leyte PPO in a simple turn-over at the office of the Regional Director 9:00 a.m. Friday pursuant to General Orders No. 655 dated July 3, 2013.

Unay, a member of Philippine Military Academy “Hinirang” class 1987, is a former chief of the Regional Operations and Plans Division (ROPD) and Provincial Director of Northern Samar PPO.

Relatedly, PSSupt. Mario Abraham G. Lenaming, former chief of the Regional Logistics Development Division (RLLD) was designated as OIC of Northern Samar PPO effective June 27 pursuant to General Orders No. 605 dated June 26.

Lenaming, of Philippine National Police Academy “Makatao” class 1985, replaced PSSupt. Isaias B. Tonog, who along with Manito, was re-assigned to the Regional Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit (RPHAU) while waiting for their new designation.

Lenaming’s deputy, PSupt. Rolando Bade was designated as Acting Chief of said division.

“The movement of our officers is routinely done in order to promote a wider field of experience and expertise and to accommodate and give opportunity to other qualified officers,” Soria said.

He added that professionalism, track record and integrity are among the factors being considered in the PNP placement and promotion system.

“The PNP has an established career pattern which is the course by which PNP personnel progress in the service through a system of rotation of assignments in command, staff, technical and training duties including exposure to a variety of police operation and administrative experiences to enable them to be developed as well rounded police officers and advance to positions of greater responsibility,” the police official averred.

Meanwhile, the PNP Senior Officers Placement and Promotions Board (SOPPB) has declared the position of City Director of Tacloban City Police Office (TCPO) vacant effective June 24.

This means that the SOPPB will deliberate from a pool of qualified third level police commissioned officers, or those with the rank of Police Senior Superintendent, and come up with a list of eligibles that will be submitted to the office of Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez who has the authority to select the city director.

A local chief executive, like Romualdez, has the prerogative to select his city director or police chief, and the governor to choose his provincial police director.

The SOPPB is a board duly authorized to undertake the screening and evaluation of officers due for promotion and/or placement to key positions and other positions of responsibility in the PNP.

PSSupt. Teodoro J. Basa, Deputy Regional Director for Operation, has been designated in concurrent capacity as OIC of Tacloban CPO since May 8.