Police Director Danilo Constantino is now the PNP’s number 4 official as Deputy Director Generals Leonardo Espina and Marcelo Garbo, Jr., are officially promoted
Police Director Danilo Constantino. Photo from the PNP DPCR
The chief of the
Philippine National Police (PNP)’s community relations arm is now its 4th in
command.
Police Director
Danilo Constantino, the former chief of the PNP’s Directorate for Police
Community Relations (DPCR) has been promoted to Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Chief
of Directorial Staff, following the promotion of the police force’s two
highest-ranking officials.
According to
General Order Number 692 from the PNP’s National Headquarters, Constantino
officially joins Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina and Deputy Director
General Marcelo Garbo, Jr., in the Command Group this week. (READ: Espina, Garbo to assume new PNP posts next week – Roxas)
The order is
dated April 14, 2015.
Espina was
promoted from Deputy Chief for Operations to Deputy Chief for Administation
while Garbo moved from Chief of Directorial Staff to Deputy Chief for
Operations.
The Deputy Chief
of Administation is the PNP’s number 2, while the Deputy Chief for Operations
is the PNP’s 3rd highest-ranking official. The Chief of Directorial Staff is
the PNP’s number 4.
Constantino, a
member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class of 1982, was previously
regional chief of Cebu . He was also executive
officer and later the deputy director of the Directorate for Operations.
The 2-star
general from Gapan, Nueva Ecija was also deputy director of the Directorate for
Comptrollership.
With his
appointment, Constantino bypassed other members of his class who were
considered front runners for the Command Group: Criminal Investigation and
Detection Group (CIDG) chief Police Director Benjamin Magalong and Directorate
for Operations chief Police Director Ricardo Marquez.
PNP
without a chief
Constantino’s
addition to the PNP Command Group and the formal promotion of Espina and Garbo
comes as the PNP marks more than 4 months without
a full-time or acting chief.
Espina is
concurrently the PNP’s Office-in-Charge (OIC) after the preventive suspension and eventual resignation of PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima.
Purisima was
suspended by the Ombudsman in December 2014 pending the investigation of a
graft case against him.
He resigned in
early February after he was implicated in the failure of “Oplan Exodus,” a
botched police operation in Mamasapano town, Maguindanao that claimed the lives
of at least 67, including 44 members of the PNP Special Action Force.
Espina is among
the top contenders for PNP chief although he is turning 56 – the mandatory age
for retirement – in July 2015.
Other top contenders for the post of PNP chief are Garbo,
Magalong, Marquez, and Directorate for Logistics chief Police Director Juanito
Vaño, Jr.
Sources also say
that Chief Superintendent Raul Petrasanta, a close friend of President Benigno
Aquino III, may come in as a dark horse in the race.
Like Purisima,
Petrasanta is currently serving a preventive suspension order stemming from two
cases pending before the Ombudsman: the Werfast case, which also involves
Purisima, and a case involving the alleged sale of AK-47s to communist rebels
in Mindanao .
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