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New PNP Chief Guillermo Eleazar (Contributed via Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo)
+ May 07, 2021 LIEUTENANT General Guillermo Eleazar on Friday, May 7, 2021, formally assumed office as the 26th chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
PNP Chief Debold Sinas relinquished his post during a change of command ceremony held Friday, a day before he would reach the mandatory retirement age of 56.
With his assumption, Eleazar announced the re-launching of the intensified cleanliness policy (ICP), which he first implemented during his stint in the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO).
Eleazar said the policy focuses on the maintenance of cleanliness in police stations, the implementation of reforms to stop the culture of wrongdoings among policemen, making the PNP recruitment foolproof through a QR code system to avoid “bata-bata” or “padrino” system, and intensification of community-focused peace and order operations.
But who is he?
Guillor, as he is known by his mistah and in the PNP, was awarded with the Latin honor cum laude when he graduated at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). He was actually the Top 4 of the graduating PMA ‘Hinirang’ Class of 1987.
A native of Tagkawayan town of Quezon, he decided to take the PMA entrance examination as an acceptance to the challenge of his father Victor, a World War II veteran, who wanted at least one of his children to be in the uniformed service.
His first assignments was in communist rebel-infested areas of Southern Tagalog region where he was given various assignments that were mostly on intelligence-gathering and combat operations.
‘What other country would do this to its people?’ Cambodian land grab victims seek int’l justice
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in 2014 estimated that at least 770,000 people had been affected by land grabs that cover some 4 million hectares of land. Sources say Indigenous communities are more adversely affected by land grabs because the land is often central to their animist beliefs and their livelihoods, and they are even less likely to be afforded justice than ethnically Khmer victims.
FIDH, along with Global Witness and Climate Counsel, submitted an open letter dated March 16 to Fatou Bensouda, the current prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging her to open a preliminary examination into land-grabbing in Cambodia.