“We will boost the morale of the Special Action Force”.
This is the statement of the new PNP-SAF Director Police
Chief Superintendent Moro Virgilio Lazo during simple turnover ceremonies led
by President Benigno Aquino III at NCRPO Headquarters in Camp Bagong Diwa in
Bicutan, Taguig City, Wednesday morning.
Aquino witnessed the installation of a PNP-SAF chief for the
first time considering that the President usually just attends turnover
ceremonies for the PNP’s Chief.
Lazo thanked President Aquino for trust in appointing him as
SAF command. "I am grateful, honored and humbled."
Lazo said that he would raise the morale of the SAF
following the death of its 44 operatives in a firefight with Muslim rebels in
Mamasapano, Maguindanao last Jan. 25.
” Ayusin natin yung morale ng SAF especially yung nangyari
nitong incident we will be having rebuilding, practically not really re-train
but to continue ongoing training,” Lazo, who replaced Chief Supt. Noli Taliño,
who assumed command as acting SAF commander following the relief of Director
Getulio Napeñas over the Mamasapano incident.
Both Lazo and Taliño belong to Philippine Military Academy
Maharlika Class 1984.
Lazo was a SAF member himself from 1984 to 1989 and 2010 to
2013.
Upon his graduation from the PMA in 1984, he joined the SAF
until 1989. He rejoined the elite police unit again as the chief of directorial
staff or No. 3 man of SAF from May 2010 to February 2013.
”I am so excited to be back home.... may the force be with
us all,” he noted, who hails from Ilocos Norte, was a member of former Fidel V.
Ramos' Presidential Security Group. His first assignment was in May 1984, as a
junior officer of SAF's first Special Action company.
Lazo served as deputy regional director for administration
and OIC of the Region 1 police and later chief of the Firearms and Explosive
Office (FEO) prior to his being named SAF director.
Sr. Supt. Bucks Felix of the PNP Directorate for Operations
will replace Lazo at the FEO.
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