A TRAINING camp for uniformed personnel in Consolacion, Cebu may soon be named after the late Interior secretary Jesse Robredo, who led the camp's groundbreaking ceremony hours before he died in a plane crash in 2012.
A bill renaming the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC)-Regional Training School 7 into PPSC-Camp Jesse M. Robredo was approved by the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education yesterday.
"We are happy with the approval of House Bill 5661 and look forward to its passage into law," Rep. Gabriel Luis Quisumbing (Cebu, 6th district) said in a statement.
Quisumbing said he filed the bill in recognition of the late secretary's "contribution and unfailing sense of duty to the Filipino nation."
Before becoming the secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Robredo served several years as mayor of Naga City, Camarines Sur.
In 2000, he received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service.
President Benigno Aquino III appointed him as DILG secretary in 2010.
Robredo's plane crashed off Masbate in the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2012, killing the secretary, pilot Jessup Bahinting and co-pilot and Nepalese flight student Kshitiz Chand.
His aide, Chief Insp. June Paolo Abrazado, was the lone survivor.
Robredo had just come from the groundbreaking ceremony of the PPSC regional training camp in Consolacion.
The PPSC trains personnel of the Philippine National Police, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, and Bureau of Fire Protection.