{"id":51628,"date":"2015-06-11T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51628"},"modified":"2015-06-13T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T01:18:38","slug":"lacson-urges-purisimas-early-retirement-to-stabilize-pnp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/11\/lacson-urges-purisimas-early-retirement-to-stabilize-pnp\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacson urges Purisima\u2019s early retirement to \u2018stabilize\u2019 PNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51637\" style=\"width: 757px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lacson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51637\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lacson.jpg\" alt=\"Former PNP chief Panfilo &quot;Ping&quot; Lacson (Facebook photo\/Carlo Loreto)\" width=\"757\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lacson.jpg 757w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lacson-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former PNP chief Panfilo &#8220;Ping&#8221; Lacson (Facebook photo\/Carlo Loreto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 In order to \u2018stabilize\u2019 the Philippine National Police (PNP), former police chief Panfilo \u201cPing\u201d Lacson has urged previously suspended police chief Alan Purisima to consider early retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Purisima is on a leave of absence for a month. He has resigned from his post after being tagged in the gruesome Mamasapano clash with Moro rebels earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Purisima, however, is set to return next month as he is not yet due to retire until five months from now. Although he will no longer take the highest position in the police organization, he remains a four-star police general.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Lacson has called out Purisima to opt for an early retirement as there can only be one four-star general in the police force. Lacson has noted that \u2018as long as Purisima retains that rank, nobody can get the fourth star.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lacson has added that \u2018the PNP can\u2019t be run by a permanent officer in charge;\u2019 President Benigno Aquino III must appoint a new and permanent PNP chief soon as the position has remained vacant for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina, who is serving as the PNP OIC, will be retiring next month. And even as the PNP OIC, Espina has no authority over certain things, like promoting police officers.<\/p>\n<p>And without a PNP chief, the promotion of police personnel and officers has remained stalled. Because of this, policemen in acting capacity could not exercise proper leadership in their jurisdictions. There are now many OIC\u2019s in the police organization, but like Espina, they only have \u2018limited authority\u2019 in their positions.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson has then pointed out that the absence of a PNP chief and the backlog of promotions resulted to a \u2018suffering\u2019 police organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 In order to \u2018stabilize\u2019 the Philippine National Police (PNP), former police chief Panfilo \u201cPing\u201d Lacson has urged previously &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":51637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51628","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=51628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}