PRO-Cor Regional Director PBGen. Mafelino Bazar
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — “The new rank laid on your shoulders manifest the significance of your well-earned promotion and comes with great responsibility to serve and protect our people.”
Police Regional Office Cordillera Regional Director PBGen. Mafelino Bazar stressed this to the 2,031 newly promoted police officers who took their oath on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
Bazar officiated the hybrid administration of oath and donning and pinning of ranks to the promoted police officers composed of 219 Police Commissioned Officers (PCOs) and 1,812 Police Non-commissioned Officers (PNCOs) from the different police units across the region.
For the PCOs, five were promoted to Police Major, 191 to Police Captain, and 23 to Police Lieutenant.
For the PNCOs, 90 were promoted to Police Executive Master Sergeant, 189 to Police Chief Master Sergeant, 156 to Police Senior Master Sergeant, 257 to Police Master Sergeant, 363 to Police Staff Sergeant, and 757 to Police Corporal.
There were 66 officers promoted from the Regional Head Quarters, 147 from the Regional Mobile Force Battalion, and 323 from the Benguet Police Provincial Office (PPO) who physically attended the ceremony at the PROCOR Parade Grounds here.
Joining the ceremony virtually were 323 officers from the Abra PPO, 122 from the Apayao PPO, 289 from the Baguio City Police Office, 244 from the Ifugao PPO, 330 from the Kalinga PPO and 187 from Mountain Province PPO.
Bazar congratulated all the newly promoted personnel and encouraged them to continue to do their best and be good example as law-abiding citizens.
The ceremony was part of the nationwide simultaneous mass oath-taking, donning, and pinning of ranks for the 2nd Level Uniformed Personnel promoted under CY 2022 Regular Promotion Program of the PNP.(JDP/RMC- PIA CAR/PRO-Cor PIO photos)
