Muslim preacher is Marawi City police chief

From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 26): Muslim preacher is Marawi City police chief

Chief Supt. Reuben Theodore Sindac, police regional director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-ARMM), today announced the designation of a noted Muslim preacher as the new police chief for Marawi City.

Supt. Ebra Moxir Al Haj has assumed office Tuesday facing a gargantuan challenge of bringing peace and normalcy in the city stilled besieged by jihadists Abu Sayyaf and Maute Groups.

Sindac said Moxir served for 22 years in the Philippine National Police Chaplain Service and a commissioned officer of the Philippine Army.

His being religious will help bring back the glory days of police in Marawi City.

Supt. Moxir, currently the president of the Imam Council of the Philippines, was welcomed by his subordinates and other police officers from PRO-ARMM when he assumed office at the Camp Bagong Amai Pakpak in Marawi City.

”Let us bring back the rule of law,” he told members of the Marawi City PNP, majority of whom he knew personally being and native of the city.

”Let us be an instrument to bring back the peace that was lost in Marawi due to the Maute and Abu Sayyaf attacks,” he added.

Sindac said aside from being a full bloodied Maranao, Supt. Moxir was one of the best among police superintendents there is in the organization. He holds a masters’ degree in public management major in development studies and master in public administration.

Sindac hoped that Moxir will bring back the glory days of the PNP in Marawi City whose main objective is to serve and to protect the people.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1003109