More than a hundred high-ranking officials of the Philippine National Police, who submitted their courtesy resignations last month, have so far been screened by the panel tasked to check for their possible involvement in illegal drugs. |dexcabalzaINQ /PDI
Also at Friday’s meeting, the body agreed to finalize and adopt the guidelines and procedures of the evaluation process, were were also not publicly revealed.
Key posts in the police force include the top brass—the PNP chief, the deputy chief for administration, deputy chief for operations and chief of the directorial staff—the heads of the 11 directorates and four area police commands. Azurin is one of members of the five-man screening committee, which convened early this month. He was joined by retired police general and Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, Office of the Presidential Adviser on Military Affairs Undersecretary Isagani Nerez, retired Court of Appeals Justice Melchor Sadang and former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro.
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