{"id":16132,"date":"2020-09-02T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/?p=16132"},"modified":"2020-09-02T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:33:08","slug":"palace-expects-new-pnp-chief-cascolan-to-rid-police-force-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/palace-expects-new-pnp-chief-cascolan-to-rid-police-force-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace expects new PNP chief Cascolan to rid police force of corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday said the government relies upon newly minted Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Lt. Gen. Camilo Pancratius Cascolan to stamp corruption out of the police force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;[Cascolan is expected to] rid [PNP] of corruption because that\u2019s the reason why the President doubled the salary of the armed forces and military,&#8221; Palace spokesman Harry Roque said in an interview over CNN Philippines&#8217; The Source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cascolan&#8217;s appointment took effect today, Sept. 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He replaced retired Police Gen. Archie Gamboa who reached the mandatory retirement age of 55 today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cascolan&#8217;s number one task, Roque said, was to &#8220;uphold integrity of the rule of law as far as the PNP is concerned.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Rodrigo Duterte has also ordered the new PNP chief to &#8220;sustain the gains of the drug war,&#8221; the president&#8217;s spokesman revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>DILG expresses support<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement, Interior Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o backed Cascolan\u2019s appointment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are confident that the incoming chief of the PNP would continue the significant strides made by his predecessors in making the PNP a professional organization worthy of our people\u2019s trust,\u201d A\u00f1o said in a statement Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;In the face of the Covid-19 global pandemic, we are confident that the new PNP chief will deliver the high demands of public service expected by the public from the PNP as it continues to be a pillar in the battle against this dreadful disease,&#8221; he added. <\/span><b><i>John Ezekiel J. Hirro<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[Cascolan is expected to] rid [PNP] of corruption because that\u2019s the reason why the President doubled the salary of the armed forces and military,&#8221; Palace spokesman Harry Roque said in an interview over CNN Philippines&#8217; The Source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1478,1479,1495,196],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/118622491_4383721695002386_7808629978286766917_o-e1599049928788.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16136,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16132\/revisions\/16136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}