Three candidates for PD nominated
LINGAYEN–Three senior police officers have finally been nominated for the provincial police director post to replace controversial Senior Supt. Marlou Chan.
The three are: Senior Supts. Mariel Maniego Mangaway, Ferdinand Ocales Divina and Valeriano Templo de Leon.
The nominations were made by the Senior Officers Placement and Promotion Board (SOPB) of the Philippine National Police and approved by Philippine National Police Chief and Director General Alan Purisima.
The names were submitted to the National Police Commission (Napolcom) board headed by Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas as chairman, said Chief Supt. Ricardo Marquez, director of Police Regional Office 1.
Marquez announced the submission of the list during the resumption of hearing of the petition for the issuance of Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and writ of Preliminary Injunction against Chan before the sala of Regional Trial Court Judge Caridad Galvez of Branch 59 in Lingayen on Tuesday.
The case against Chan was filed by Governor Amado Espino Jr. who is questioning the legality of Chan’s appointment as provincial police head.
The list, once approved, will be sent to the Police Regional Office 1 and eventually to Espino who, under the law, has the right and privilege to select from among the three nominees who will become the next police provincial director of Pangasinan.
WHERE’S THE LIST NOW?
As of August 9, however, Espino said he has yet to receive such list.
Mangaway was supposed to assume as police director of Pangasinan in early 2012 upon the retirement of Senior Supt. Rosueto Ricaforte but his assignment in Pangasinan was put off following a call from the PNP Regional Office 1.
After Ricaforte left, the Pangasinan Police Office was led by officers-in-charge, the latest of whom to report last December 16, 2012 was Chan until he got his appointment as a permanent police director on May 10, 2012, just three days before the election.
On the other hand, Divina was a former chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Region 1.
De Leon was a former provincial director of Quezon before he was reassigned to the PNP Directorate for Operations at Camp Crame. De Leon was reportedly relieved as police director of Quezon as a result of the infamous Atimonan shoot-out that happened on January 6, 2013.
Espino asserts that the appointment of Chan did not go through the process prescribed by the PNP Law and in violation of the ban against the appointment of any official and employee of the government during the election period.
Under the PNP Law, it is the governor who will select the next police provincial director from a list of three names to be submitted by the Police Regional Director, a process which Espino said was not observed when Chan was made as permanent police director of Pangasinan.
The next hearing of the petition is slated in September at which time, the next provincial director of Pangasinan may have already been appointed.
Chan, former police director of Ilocos Norte and a native of San Quintin, Pangasinan, is reportedly going to be reassigned at the PNP Regional Office in San Fernando City, La Union.
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