There is no order yet for the relief of Senior Supt. Edgardo Ordaniel, Chief Supt. Josephus Angan, police regional director for Western Visayas, said yesterday on the report that Bacolod City has a new city director.

Angan told the DAILY STAR that, up to yesterday, the Police Regional Office-6 had not received an order from the police national office in Camp Crame about the relief of Ordaniel as Bacolod police director.

Angan said the basis for any movement in the PNP organization is an order, adding that the information received by Ordaniel on Friday, was purely a “rumor”.

Angan also said he did not even know that someone from the PRO-6 command group had called Ordaniel to be ready for his relief soon.

The regional director said no order is out for Ordaniel to leave his post as acting city police director since there is still no one to replace him.

The PRO-6 will be the first to know if officials in the city and provincial police offices, will be reassigned and replaced, Angan said.

He said the speculation may have come out because the list of nominees for the city directorship from the national office is being awaited. Also, there are many qualified officials for the position, so competition exists, he said, adding that Ordaniel is still the acting city director of Bacolod.

Ordaniel had been assigned at the BCPO for more than a year now.

Meanwhile, Police Senior Supt. Larry Decena yesterday said that there is no order for him yet to be assigned as the officer-in-charge of Bacolod, contrary to earlier reports.

Decena, who is presently assigned at the Regional Placement Holding and Administrative Office of the Western Visayas police, with Senior Supt. Pedrito Escarilla and other senior police officers, while waiting for their assignments, however, admitted that he was advised to prepare for an assignment in Bacolod.

“We will just wait for more developments,” Decena, who was assigned at the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office several years ago said.

The names of Decena and Escarilla, who used to be assigned as Bacolod police deputy director, recently cropped up as among the possible nominees for BCPO chief.

Before his assignment at RPHAO, Decena served as officer-in-charge of the Guimaras Police Provincial Office and Police Community Relations (PCR) Division chief of the Western Visayas police.

Police Supt. Roderick Alba is the new officer-in-charge of the Police Regional Office 6.

Police Supt. Leonardo Angcon, who used to be Sipalay police chief and NOPPO Intelligence Officer, has temporarily assumed the position of Regional Operations Plans and Division chief of the Western Visayas police, after the appointment of his predecessor, Senior Supt. Samuel Nacion, as Aklan police officer-in-charge.*GPB/SGG

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