NINE senior police officers were appointed to new positions after the retirement of four police directors created vacancies in the Philippine National Police hierarchy.
Designated to their new posts effective December 20 were Chief Superintendent Noel Constantino as acting director for police-community relations, Chief Superintendent Gilbert Sosa as director integrated police operations in Northern Luzon and Chief Superintendent Agripino Javier as acting Northern Mindanao regional director.
Chief Superintendent Eliseo Rasco was also named acting Cagayan Valley regional director while Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac was designated Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao regional director.
Replacing Sindac at the Logistics Support Service is Chief Superintendent Amador Corpus.
Other police officials assigned to new posts were Chief Superintendent Danilo Maligalig as deputy director for administration of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group based in Camp Crame.
Maligalig is the younger brother of Major General Leopoldo Maligalig, former superintendent of the Philippine Military Academy who retired from the service in 2008.
The movement of third-level officials also include Senior Superintendent Joseph Adnol as deputy regional director of Northern Mindanao and Senior Superintendent Debold Sinas as secretary to the Directorial Staff.
Last December 15, PNP Director General Ronald dela Rosa approved a major reorganization with the designation of 11 senior officials to key post in the Command Group, Directorial Staff, Police Regional Offices and National Support Units.
The new set of designations of senior police officials was triggered by the recent retirement of four police directors with two-star ranks, thus creating vacancies in the higher echelon in the PNP organization.