PDEA, IAS directors
get leadership awards
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency regional director Rolen Balquin and Supt. Ifor Magbanua, Internal Affairs Service provincial director, graduated from the nine-month Public Safety Officers Senior Executive Course in Iloilo City with flying colors yesterday.

Former Rep. Margarita Cojuangco, president of the Philippine Public Safety College, conferred the leadership award on Balquin and Magbanua at their graduation rites yesterday.

Magbanua, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class '81, also graduated on top of the OSEC Class 57-2005, composed of 51 police chief inspectors and superintendents assigned all over the country.

Balquin is the president of OSEC Class 57-2005.

Supt. Celestino Guara, Silay police chief, also received an award from Cojuangco for topping the firearms proficiency training course with a score of 100.

Twelve other senior police commissioned officers assigned in Negros Occidental - Supts. Ricardo de la Paz, Leo Irwin Agpangan, Larry Decena, Edgardo Ordaniel, Edgar Esparagoza, Danilo Peña and Roderick Alba, Chief Inspectors Armando Tobongbanua, Calixto Mabugat, Joseph Martir, Violeta Noblezada, Jomil John Trio and Hector Maestral were among the police commissioned officers who completed the OSEC.

OSEC is a requirement for promotion to senior superintendent, which is equivalent to full-fledged colonel in the military.

The 51 PCOs had undergone a week-long training at the Los Angeles Federal Bureau of Investigation field office in California, United States in December last year.*GPB

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