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Sunday, October 31, 2004
Police eye civilian to handle comptroller post
By Chris Navarro and Fred Roxas
CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga -- Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Edgardo Aglipay considers designating a civilian instead of a police officer to be the police comptroller after the military announced the abolition of its comptroller office.
Aglipay said he decided to study the possibility and consider advantages of designating a civilian as head of the PNP comptroller's office, now occupied by Chief Supt. Oscar Calderon.
He said he thought of designating a civilian instead of a police officer as PNP comptroller after attending a conference in Camp Aguinaldo last Friday in which, according to him, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) hierarchy decided to replace its comptroller with a civilian.
Aglipay made the disclosure during his first command conference held here with the officers of the Central Luzon police regional office headed by newly promoted Chief Supt. Quirino dela Torre.
Aglipay said he is also conducting other studies "to change some systems in the PNP to make it more effective as a service-oriented and people-oriented organization."
Lt. Gen. Efren Abu who assumed the top military post last Friday ordered the abolition of the office of the deputy chief of staff for comptrollership.
It was his first official act after being officially installed as the Armed Forces Chief of Staff.
Abu will be implementing the restructuring of the logistics and comptroller system to ensure sustained capability buildup of the armed forces and maximize all available financial resources.
The chief of staff said the changes will provide a stronger check and balance system.
The abolition of the comptroller office came in the midst of allegations against former comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia for amassing unexplained wealth.
Garcia is being prosecuted before the Sandiganbayan for alleged graft practices and perjury. Separate charges are also pending before the military court martial for conduct and unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
People's welfare
Meanwhile, during the command conference, Aglipay invited members of the media "to let them know what we in the PNP have been doing for the welfare of the people."
Aglipay admonished police officers, especially provincial and city directors and municipal police chiefs, to "stay out of your offices to serve the people wholeheartedly."
He added these police officers should refrain from "constantly visiting your governors and mayors and instead visit their constituents, work with them and know their problems."
The PNP chief also did a little tongue-lashing against "many ranking police regional and provincial directors" for their "old-style" of briefings on their accomplishments without being specific.
He lamented that in almost all briefings he has received, he got nothing but general reports on numbers of crimes solved, persons arrested, crime gangs busted or neutralized "without mentioning the specific crimes solved, persons arrested, and criminal gangs neutralized."
He also warned regional and provincial police directors to dismantle organized crime syndicates which include kidnap-for-ransom gangs, big-time drug pushers and other forms of criminal elements.
Aglipay also said during the said command conference that Vice President Noli de Castro has approved the appropriation of some P200 million for the PNP housing projects in Metro Manila and other places in the country.
(October 31, 2004 issue)
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