{"id":41867,"date":"2015-02-11T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41867"},"modified":"2015-02-11T16:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:28:42","slug":"purisima-remains-a-cop-even-after-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/purisima-remains-a-cop-even-after-resigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Purisima remains a cop even after resigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41756\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purisima-alan-senate-mamasapano-e1423577022668.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41756\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purisima-alan-senate-mamasapano-e1423577022668-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Resigned PNP Chief Alan Purisima at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (screenshot from Rappler footage)\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purisima-alan-senate-mamasapano-e1423577022668-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purisima-alan-senate-mamasapano-e1423577022668.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resigned PNP Chief Alan Purisima at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (screenshot from Rappler footage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0Director General Alan Purisima will remain a member of the Philippine National Police even after resigning from his post.<\/p>\n<p>Purisima only resigned from his position but not from service, according to\u00a0PNP spokesperson Chief Supt. Generoso Cerbo Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is still a policeman. Once his preventive suspension is over, he is still a police officer but he has no more designation,\u201d Cerbo said in a press briefing in Camp Crame.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In other words, Purisima will remain a member of the 150,000-strong force of PNP, receiving a salary and benefits of more than\u00a0P100,000 a month after he serve his\u00a0six-month preventive suspension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The director general receives\u00a0P67,500 monthly salary, P33,750 in longevity pay and other benefits including\u00a0a quarterly allowance, subsistence allowance, clothing allowance, hazard pay, cost of living allowance, additional compensation and laundry allowance.<\/p>\n<p>After his preventive suspension which will be over in June, Purisima will still be given at least\u00a0P107,531.50 a month.<\/p>\n<p>Purisima, who was questioned for his involvement in the Mamasapano encounter which caused the death of 44\u00a0Special Action Force (SAF) commandos already resigned from his post.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation was announced by President Aquino last Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0Director General Alan Purisima will remain a member of the Philippine National Police even after resigning from his post. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}