Basngi out; Valerio takes over as ICPO officer-in-charge
Senior Supt. Dennis Basngi is deemed administratively relieved as director of the Iloilo City Police Office effective today, December 6.
This was confirmed yesterday by police regional director, Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol Jr., who informed Basngi about his relief from ICPO and his temporary reassignment at the Office of Regional Director in Camp Delgado, Iloilo City.
“He took it (his relief) very well,” Querol said.
Senior Supt. Marietto Valerio of the Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division will take over as ICPO officer-in-charge.
By administrative relief, it means that Basngi has been stripped of his responsibilities as ICPO director.
Querol said Basngi’s relief is a result of an order of the Philippine National Police headquarters to relieve Basngi from his post, after Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog wrote to Camp Crame more than a week ago requesting for Basngi’s relief.
The PNP Senior Officers Placement and Promotion Board has yet to name the three officers who will be candidates for the next ICPO director. Mabilog will choose from the three.
Some quarters said Basngi’s relief came as a surprise after Mabilog said last week that he is giving the ICPO director “another chance.”
He said a “success story” narrated by Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, who was recently in Iloilo City, prompted him to “keep Basngi.”
Robredo said in his story that there was once an ineffective employee kicked out from his post in the government but he asked for forgiveness and pledged to do his job well.
Also a source claimed that Basngi and Mabilog have talked things over and that Mabilog has expressed his intention to recall the letter he sent to Camp Crame.
But Basngi has reportedly asked for forgiveness for whatever trouble he caused to the Mabilog administration and claimed that it’s high time for him to go back to Luzon.
A source further claimed that Mabilog wanted to “keep Basngi to paint an image that he is a compassionate politician. In truth, however, he wants the PNP to take the cudgels for him.”
After Mabilog announced last week that he wants a new city police director,
Basngi said he has no ill feelings over his looming relief, adding that he has “reached the point that he felt, to save the institution, you have to sacrifice and give up to give chance to others.”*
