PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has appointed new deputy directors of the National Bureau of Investigation in line with the bureau’s plan to reorganize itself, an official said Tuesday.
NBI spokesman Ferdinand Lavin said the reorganization at the NBI was “ongoing.”
He made his statement even as Philippine Overseas Employment Agency chief Hans Leo Cacdac was named administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, replacing former OWWA head Rebecca Calzado.
Labor Secretary Sylvestre Bello III said Department of Justice’s prosecutor Claro Arellano is the new head of POEA.
Duterte has appointed to the NBI Leopoldo Leuterio Jr. as Deputy Director for Regional Operations Service; Jose Yap as Deputy Director for Investigation Service; Antonio Pagatpat as Deputy Director for Administrative Services; Jose Doloiras as Deputy Director for Financial Service; and Ferdinand Lavin as Officer-in-Charge of the office of the Assistant Director for Forensic and Scientific Research Service.
Medardo de Lemos, who was reappointed during the time of President Benigno Aquino III, was retained by Duterte as NBI Assistant Director.
“The reshuffle is still ongoing. The reorganization is still ongoing,” Lavin told The Standard, during an exclusive interview at the sidelines of the hearing of the Senate committee on justice and human rights Monday night.
Lavin, together with Joel Tovera, who heads the NBI’s anti-illegal drugs division, and NBI Director Dante Gierran, testified before that Committee on Monday on the alleged extra-judicial killings happening in the country.
Lavin, Tovera and Gierran will continue their testimony this week before the same committee.
“We are still awaiting action from Malacañang [regarding the other appointments to the NBI],” Lavin said.
“The others [division chiefs] are still OIC unless they are replaced.”