Region 1 police chief named

CAMP OSCAR FLORENDO, La Union ,  – Chief Superintendent Franklin Jesus Bucayu, chief of the human rights affairs office in Camp Crame, assumed yesterday as new director of the Region 1 police as approved by President Aquino.

Bucayu, a Philippine Military Academy class of 1981, has replaced Chief Superintendent Orlando Mabutas who reached the mandatory retirement age yesterday, his birthday, Dec. 13.

Bucayu was chosen from among the more than 20 police generals who vied for the position as regional director of Police Regional Office 1.

“One of the major thrusts of my term is to continue strengthening police-community partnership to achieve maximum synergy of efforts.”

“We will keep performing with renewed vigor our mandate to provide a safe and secure environment for the people, an environment that is favorable to economic and progress,” Bucayu said during his assumption.

Before his assignment as Crame’s human rights affairs chief, Bucayu served as La Union police director in 2007-2009 and PRO1 chief-of-staff in late 2009.