{"id":119100,"date":"2017-09-22T23:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=119100"},"modified":"2017-09-22T23:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:27:57","slug":"pdea-ncr-has-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/22\/pdea-ncr-has-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"PDEA-NCR has new director"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109266\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDEA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109266\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDEA.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. (PNA photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDEA.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PDEA-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. (PNA photo)pdea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2014 Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Aaron Aquino on Friday designated Director III Ismael G. Fajardo as new Regional Director for the National Capital Region (NCR).<\/p>\n<p>Aquino said Fajardo replaced Director III Wilkins Villanueva, who has been designated as head of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service of the Bureau of Customs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of work must be done. NCR has the highest rate of barangay drug-affectation in the country. Owing to his vast experience and impressive credentials, I am confident that Fajardo will deliver results of significantly reducing the extent of the drug problem in the region,\u201d the PDEA chief said.<\/p>\n<p>Fajardo served as Director of PDEA Special Enforcement Service (PDEA-SES) from August 2014 until May 21, 2017, when he was appointed as Regional Director of PDEA Regional Office 3.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining PDEA, Fajardo served the Philippine National Police (PNP) for 35 years where he held various vital and sensitive posts. He is a recipient of numerous awards for his superb performance and competence in the field of law enforcement, especially in counter-narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>Fajardo pursued his Master\u2019s Degree in Public Administration at Isabela Colleges from \u200e2001-2003 and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration in the same learning institution in 2015. He is a licensed criminologist and an alumnus of Philippine College of Criminology. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Aaron Aquino on Friday designated Director III Ismael G. Fajardo as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[6095],"class_list":["post-119100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-pdea","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}