PNP make a revamp after its number 2 man go on non-duty status, NCRPO gets new chief

Miami
November 19, 2008
Story: PNP make a revamp after its number 2 man go on non-duty status, NCRPO gets new chief

The Philippine National Police make a revamp on their high and key positions after its number two man decides to go on non-duty status in preparation for his retirement.

Police Deputy Director General Emmanuel Carta, chief for Administration, decided to go on non-duty status last Monday, November 17, so that he will have enough time to prepare for all the clearances he needs to prepare for his retirement benefits. He will retire on January 1, 2009 on mandatory age of 56.

Carta is one of the PNP delegates who went to Russia last October 6 to 11 to attend the 77th Interpol Assembly. Last November 3, Carat has returned, in full, the travel allowance he received for the Russia trip which is amounting to P274,000.

Upon his non-duty status, Carta is replaced by Deputy Director General Ismael Rafanan, the PNP chief for operations.

Rafanan is replaced by Director Geary Barias, the chief directorial staff (TCDS).

Barias position as chief of directorial staff is replaced by Director Jefferson Soriano who assumed the post as chief of National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) last September 29 then was passed on to Director Leopoldo Bataoil yesterday (November 19, 2008). Bataoil was the chief of Directorate for Police Community Relations (DPCR).

On his speech, Bataoil told his people not to waste time, “make things happen the way it must.” He vows to continue the plan that was laid by Soriano when he assumed the NCRPO post.

“I'd like to thank him (Soriano) for setting the tone for a rightful measure or approach against criminality and we will blend it with the community, empower the community. We will now unleash the power of the community,” Bataoil said.

On his part, Soriano said he wants to see “the neutralization of the robbery groups that have been victimizing our people and even desecrating the police uniform” be resolved. He even said that the robbery incident at University of the Philippines Diliman “left a hole in my heart that can only be filled by the decisive neutralization of these notorious robbery gangs.”

On the other hand, the PNP said that the revamp has nothing to do with the current controversy that they are facing right now—the Euro mess.

“It has nothing to do with the present problem or the present concern that we have. This is a normal movement, the institution is a dynamic and very resilient one and we have to fill in the gaps, especially the very sensitive ones,” Soriano said.