By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – This
city will have another chief of police (COP) in another reshuffle conducted by
the regional police office in San Fernando City, La Union.
A source closed to
Urdaneta City Mayor Amadeo Gregorio Perez IV quoted the latter to say that outgoing Officer-In-Charge's COP of this
city Superintendent Neil Miro will replace Urdaneta City’s OIC chief of police
Superintendent Jackie Candelario while Miro will be succeeded by Supt. Frank Ortiz.
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| NEW CHIEF. New Dagupan City's Chief of Police Supt. Frank Ortiz (extreme left) poses with Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez.Ortiz is a member of the Philippine National Police Academy’s Class of 2003. He hailed from Barangay Apugan-Loakan, Baguio City.
According to Ortiz
he is not certain when will be the date of his turn-over with Miro. He said he
was just reassigned from the Intelligence Group at Camp Crame in Quezon
City to the police regional office in
San Fernando City and the police provincial office (PPO) in Lingayen,
Pangasinan.
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“I’m in a floating
position at the PPO now and did not yet
know when I will be assigned in Dagupan City,” Ortiz, 40, told Northern Watch.
But according to a source the turn-over will be on April 10. The early change of command was due to a car accident that figured Supt. Candelario who suffered, according to a press release from the PPO, a dislocated right hip when his Toyota Vios bumped a mango tree in Barangay Maticmatic in Sta. Barbara.The accident ensued at 4:36 in the morning of April 7.
Ortiz is a member of the Philippine National Police Academy’s Class of 2003. He hailed from Barangay Apugan-Loakan, Baguio City.
But according to a source the turn-over will be on April 10. The early change of command was due to a car accident that figured Supt. Candelario who suffered, according to a press release from the PPO, a dislocated right hip when his Toyota Vios bumped a mango tree in Barangay Maticmatic in Sta. Barbara.The accident ensued at 4:36 in the morning of April 7.
Ortiz is a member of the Philippine National Police Academy’s Class of 2003. He hailed from Barangay Apugan-Loakan, Baguio City.
Before his
assignment in Camp Crame he was assigned in a regional intelligence unit in
Cebu City.
Source who asked not
to be identified said that Ortiz was a protege of Chief Superintendent Charlo Collado, the new OIC Police Regional Director of Region 1, in an Intelligence Group in
Camp Crame.
“He was part of a
few selected men brought by Collado when he replaced Chief Superintendent Gregorio
Pimentel who was plucked to the Directorial for Intelligence at Camp Crame in a
two-star position there”.
