Eastern Visayas has new police regional chief

By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8)
May 22, 2007

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte  –  The Philippine National Police in Region 8 underwent a change of command Monday morning with PRO 8 Regional Director Eliseo Decena dela Paz turning over the command to the new Police Regional Office 8 Regional Director Abner Dayanan Cabalquinto.

In a turn-over ceremonies held at the PRO 8 grandstand at Camp Ruperto Kangleon at 9:00 o’clock in the morning of May 21, no less than Police Deputy Director General Avelino Ignacio Razon officiated in the Turn-Over of Office Symbol in the presence of some members of the Maguilas Class 76 to which both General dela Paz and Director Cabalquinto belong.

General dela Paz was relieved from his current post in order to assume a bigger one which is that of the Director for Human Resource and Doctrines, a position which will make him a two-star general.

General dela Paz, in his valedictory address, said he will not enumerate his achievements as the Regional Director of the Philippine National Police in Region 8, but instead left it to the people of Region 8 to evaluate and judge his service which lasted for one year, eight months and twelve days.

Judging from the reactions from his men and the people, General dela Paz served the people of Region 8 well and stirred the PNP in the Region into great heights, as General Razon said, it was a job well done.

The incoming Regional Director, Police Chief Superintendent Abner Dayanan Cabalquinto, said that three years after his graduation from the Philippine Military Academy, he was assigned in the Regional Command as a junior officer.

After 28 years, three years before his retirement, he is back at Region 8 but no longer as a junior officer but as a Regional Director.