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January 19, 2018
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CEBU City – Chief Superintendent Jose Mario Espino was relieved as director of the Police Regional Office 7 (PRO-7) effective Thursday amid security preparations for the Sinulog Festival.
Espino was one of the 12 police officials reassigned to other positions, stated an order from the Philippine National Police headquarters, copies of which were handed out to the press.
Espino was headed for the PRO-10 (Northern Mindanao). Chief Superintendent Robert Guzman Quenery of the PRO-2 will replace him, stated the order issued by Personnel and Records Management director Rene Aspera.
Another police official included in the reshuffling was Human Resource Development director Noli Taliño, who will now lead the Special Action Force. Taliño once served as PRO-7 chief.
Espino was not available for comment as of this writing. He was presiding over a police meeting on preparations for the Sinulog Grand Parade and Mardi Gras when the PRO-7 received the order.
The order surprised Mayor Tomas Osmeña. He said he had not received any derogatory report against Espino other than rumors that the latter was asking payola from illegal gambling operators.
Osmeña described the rumor as “tsismis (gossip), which I don’t believe.”
Rolando Felix, chief of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operation in Visayas, said reshuffling officials is a normal practice in the police force. “This is just routine reshuffling.” (PNA)
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