NATIONAL Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) director Maj. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr has been designated as officer-in-charge of the office of the PNP deputy chief for administration, the second highest post in the PNP, in a revamp that affected four other senior police officials.
Nartatez will succeed Lt. Gen. John Michael Dubria, who has held the post in acting capacity since August when then PNP deputy chief for administration Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Peralta retired from the service.
Dubria will now focus on his main assignment as the PNP’s No. 3 man, as deputy chief for operations.
The designation of Nartatez and the other officers will be effective on October 9, a PNP order dated October 5 showed.
Nartatez, who was named NCRPO chief in June last year, is one of several contenders to the top PNP post. PNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil who is due to reach the retirement age of 56 in February next year.
Designated as acting NCRPO director, vice Nartatez, was Maj. Gen. Sidney Hernia, PNP director for personnel and records management.
Brig. Gen. Constancio Chinayog Jr, director of the PNP Forensic Group, will succeed Hernia as the PNP director for personnel and records management.
Chinayog’s soon-to-be vacated post will go to Brig. Gen. Benjamin Sembrano, the deputy chief for administration of the Central Luzon police regional office.
Sembrano’s successor is Col. Jeffrey Decena, deputy director of the PNP Intelligence Group. A replacement for Sembrano has yet to be announced.
Several police officials have been reassigned in the past weeks, including former Davao police regional office director Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III who was named director of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
Torre’s promotion to the two-star post came after he led police operations that resulted in the arrest of Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy and his four co-accused who are facing charges of child abuse and human trafficking.
On August 24, thousands of policemen swooped down at the KOJC compound in Davao City and searched dozens of structures inside the more than 30-hectare property.
On September 8, Quiboloy and his co-accused were forced to surrender after they were given a 24-hour ultimatum that policemen will assault the building where the accused were holed up if they do not give up.