{"id":190492,"date":"2018-11-21T04:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T09:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=190492"},"modified":"2018-11-21T04:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T09:51:18","slug":"faeldon-takes-oath-as-bucor-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/21\/faeldon-takes-oath-as-bucor-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Faeldon takes oath as BuCor chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Newly-appointed Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Nicanor Faeldon (Photo<\/a>: Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u00a0— Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra administered the oath of office to newly-appointed Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Nicanor Faeldon on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

DOJ spokesperson Undersecretary Markk Perete appeared before newsmen in Faeldon’s behalf and said the latter plans to visit the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa “anytime this week”.<\/p>\n

Perete said on top of Faeldon’s concerns were the drug trade inside the penitentiary, the inmate population congestion and the transfer of the national penitentiary to another locality.<\/p>\n

Perete described the meeting between Faeldon and Guevarra as “casual” and allowed the two to thresh out pending issues in the penal system.<\/p>\n

President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed Faeldon\u2019s appointment paper on November 19.<\/p>\n

Prior to his appointment as BuCor chief, Faeldon was named Office of the Civil Defense deputy administrator.<\/p>\n

He quit as Customs Commissioner amid the controversy on the PHP6.4-billion shabu shipment that slipped past the bureau.<\/p>\n

The BuCor, an attached agency under the Department of Justice (DOJ), exercises supervision over the country’s penal facilities, including the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa – which currently houses more than 27,000 inmates serving their sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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