{"id":55609,"date":"2015-07-14T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T01:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55609"},"modified":"2015-07-14T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T01:38:46","slug":"espina-asks-pnp-to-support-his-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/14\/espina-asks-pnp-to-support-his-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Espina asks PNP to support his successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41140\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mar-Roxas-Leonardo-Espina-PNP-DILG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41140\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mar-Roxas-Leonardo-Espina-PNP-DILG-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippine National Police celebrates its 24th Founding Anniversary on January 26, 2015 led by DILG Secretary Mar Roxas and PNP Officer-In-Charge Police Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina (Photo by Toti Navales)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mar-Roxas-Leonardo-Espina-PNP-DILG-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mar-Roxas-Leonardo-Espina-PNP-DILG.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Toti Navales)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; As he bids them farewell, outgoing Philippine National Police officer-in-charge Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina urged officers and personnel of the PNP to support his successor.<\/p>\n<p>Espina became emotional during the flag-raising ceremony at the PNP\u00a0National Headquarters in Camp Crame on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked everyone who supported him as he became\u00a0OIC of the PNP after the Office of the Ombudsman suspended PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima over graft charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not have hurdled it successfully without you assisting me every step of the way. Thank you very much. I urge all of you to just continue serving our people because we owe it to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all trained for leadership to lead our men. I assumed the role and responsibility given me during these past rather challenging months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not be telling the truth if I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019ll miss all of you. This has been my life, practically half of my life, if I\u2019d be granted to live until 76,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; As he bids them farewell, outgoing Philippine National Police officer-in-charge Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina urged officers and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55609","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=55609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}