Retired PGEN
Camilo Pancratius P. Cascolan
MPM, CESE
Cascolan in 2020
Undersecretary of the
Department of Health
In office
October 23, 2022 – November 24, 2023
PresidentBongbong Marcos
SecretaryMaria Rosario Vergeire (OIC)
Ted Herbosa
Chief of the Philippine National Police
In office
September 2, 2020 – November 10, 2020
PresidentRodrigo Duterte
Preceded byPGen. Archie Gamboa
Succeeded byPGen. Debold Sinas
Previous PNP positions
Deputy Chief for Administration of the Philippine National Police
In office
January 20, 2020 – September 2, 2020
PresidentRodrigo Duterte
Preceded byPLTGEN. Archie Gamboa
Succeeded byPLTGEN. Guillermo Eleazar
Deputy Chief for Operations of the Philippine National Police
In office
October 12, 2019 – January 20, 2020
PresidentRodrigo Duterte
Preceded byPLTGEN. Archie Gamboa
Succeeded byPLTGEN. Guillermo Eleazar
Chief of Directorial Staff of the Philippine National Police
In office
September 1, 2018 – October 12, 2019
PresidentRodrigo Duterte
Preceded byPLTGEN. Archie Gamboa
Succeeded byPLTGEN. Guillermo Eleazar
Director of PNP Civil Security Group
In office
June 1, 2018 – September 1, 2018
PresidentRodrigo Duterte
Regional Director of National Capital Region Police Office
In office
April 19, 2018 – June 1, 2018
PresidentRodrigo Duterte
Preceded byPDir. Oscar Albayalde
Succeeded byPMGen. Guillermo Eleazar
Director of PNP Directorate for Operations
In office
July 1, 2016 – April 19, 2018
PresidentRodrigo Duterte
Preceded byPDir. Jonathan Miano
Succeeded byPDir. Mao Aplasca
Regional Deputy Director for Administration of PNP Western Visayas Region Police Office
In office
December 8, 2015 – June 30, 2016
PresidentBenigno S. Aquino III
Regional Deputy Director for Operations of PNP Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Police Office
In office
May 22, 2015 – December 8, 2015
PresidentBenigno S. Aquino III
Regional Chief of the Directorial Staff of PNP Davao Region Police Office
In office
April 21, 2014 – May 22, 2015
PresidentBenigno S. Aquino III
Provincial Director of PNP Compostela Valley Police Office
In office
July 23, 2012 – April 21, 2014
PresidentBenigno S. Aquino III
Personal details
Born
Camilo Pancratius Pascua Cascolan

(1964-11-10)November 10, 1964
Baguio, Mountain Province, Philippines
DiedNovember 24, 2023(2023-11-24) (aged 59)
EducationPhilippine Military Academy (B.Sc. Mil.)
University of the Philippines Visayas (MPA)
NicknamePikoy
Military service
Allegiance Philippines
Branch/servicePhilippine Constabulary
Years of service1986–1992
Police career
Allegiance Philippines
DepartmentPhilippine National Police
  • PNP Deputy Chief for Administration
  • PNP Deputy Chief for Operations
  • PNP Directorial Staff
  • PNP Civil Security Group
  • NCRPO
  • PNP Directorate for Operations
  • PNP Police Regional Office 6
  • PNP Police Regional Office ARMM
  • Compostela Valley Police Provincial Office
  • PNP Police Regional Office 11
Service years1992–2020
Rank Police General

Camilo Pancratius Pascua Cascolan (November 10, 1964 – November 24, 2023) was a Filipino police general who served as the 24th Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) from September to November 2020 under President Rodrigo Duterte.[1] After his retirement from the PNP, President Bongbong Marcos appointed him as an undersecretary of the Department of Health where he served from October 2022 until his death in November 2023.[2] He was the first Cordilleran to lead the country's national police force.[3]

Cascolan served five years with the Philippine Constabulary and 28 years with the PNP.[4] He graduated from the Philippine Military Academy in 1986 and joined the police force in 1992. He served as chief of police in three municipalities in Iloilo in the 1990s and the city of Taguig in the late 2000s. He then rose through the ranks to become Provincial Director of the Compostela Valley (now Davao de Oro) Police in 2012, Regional Deputy Chief of the former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Police in 2015, Regional Deputy Chief of the Western Visayas Police in 2016, and Regional Director of National Capital Region Police in 2018. He then held key leadership positions within the PNP and served as Deputy Chief for Operations of the PNP from 2019 to 2020 and Deputy Chief for Administration in 2020 before becoming the country's police chief.[5][6][7]

Early life and education

Camilo Pancratius Pascua Cascolan was born on November 10, 1964,[8] in the city of Baguio in what was then the undivided Mountain Province (now the province of Benguet). He was initially educated at Maryknoll Convent School and later attended the University of the Philippines Baguio High School.[1] Cascolan had originally planned to enter the priesthood, but eventually chose to pursue a military career upon his parents' advice.[4] He signed up for the Philippine Military Academy in 1982 and graduated with the Sinagtala Class of 1986, whose alumni included his predecessors in the national police, Archie Gamboa, Oscar Albayalde and Bato de la Rosa.[1]

Cascolan later earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of the Philippines Visayas in 1995.[4]

Career

Philippine Constabulary

Cascolan's first assignment after completing military school in Baguio was with the then-Philippine Constabulary Special Action Force of Central Mindanao (former Region XII) based in Parang, Maguindanao from July to December 1987. He served as a S2/3 officer deployed in the operations against the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front. He was then assigned to the 324th Public Company and Reconnaissance Company in Iloilo province where he would spend most of his junior and mid-level military career.[1]

In April 1988, Cascolan was assigned as an aide-de-camp to the Western Visayas (Region VI) Regional Command, returning briefly to his former reconnaissance battalion in March 1990 before assuming the command of the 2nd Iloilo Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) active auxiliary unit in 1992. He also eventually served as officer-in-charge of the 324th Public Company and the Regional Command VI before his designation as executive officer and section leader of the Iloilo Strike Force in the same year.[4]

Philippine National Police

Cascolan began his law enforcement career in May 1992 when he joined the newly formed Philippine National Police as station chief of Barotac Nuevo, still in Iloilo province. His next police assignments in the province were as commanding officer of the 1st Iloilo Provincial Mobile Group in Tigbauan in August 1994, group director of the 3rd mobile group in Sara in August 1997, chief of police in Ajuy in March 1998, and chief of police in Balasan in April 1998.[4]

Cascolan was based in Metro Manila from 1999 to 2007. He served as chief of the criminal investigation, research and special studies divisions of the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime in Camp Crame until 2001 and as member of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group until 2003. He then held various positions within the Aviation Security Group before transferring to Cebu City as chief of the Central Visayas (Region VII) ASG command in 2007. He returned to Manila the following year to assume command of the Taguig City Police Station until 2010. He then moved back to Camp Crame as case monitoring chief before being posted back to the field in Mindanao and Western Visayas.[1]

Cascolan served as finance chief of the Davao Region Police Office based in Davao City from 2011 to 2012. He was then designated as provincial director of the former Compostela Valley province for two years. As provincial police chief, he implemented a strategic operational plan that significantly reduced the crime volume and improved crime clearance and solution through inter-agency coordination. Three of the top New People's Army fugitives in the province were arrested in 2012 under his watch.[4] In April 2014, he returned to Davao City as regional chief of the directorial staff. His last assignment in Mindanao was as Regional Deputy Chief for Operations of the former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Police Office based in Cotabato City from May to December 2015. Cascolan also served briefly as regional deputy for administration of the Western Visayas Region Police Office back in Iloilo province from December 2015 to May 2016 where he received his first star rank.[1]

Cascolan assumed the Directorate for Operations of the PNP in June 2016 upon the appointment of his mistah (batchmate in the Philippine Military Academy) Bato dela Rosa as PNP Chief. As operations director, he was credited as one of the co-authors of Operation Double Barrel that launched the Philippine Drug War.[6] He was also instrumental in introducing home defense security through an enhanced managing police operations manual. He was promoted to two-star rank in January 2017.[8] Cascolan was then assigned with the National Capital Region Police Office as regional director in April 2018. As Metro Manila police chief, he lobbied for an eight-hour workday for uniformed personnel and for police officers to be assigned near their residence for efficiency. He was removed from the post after only six weeks after disagreements with his predecessor and then-PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde who ordered a twelve-hour workday for all personnel.[6] He was reassigned with the PNP Civil Security Group as a short-term director before taking on higher leadership roles in Camp Crame beginning September 2018.[1]

Cascolan was promoted to Chief of Directorial Staff and earned his three-star rank in October 2018.[9] He then served as Deputy Chief for Operations in October 2019 and quickly rose to the position of Deputy Chief for Administration, the number 2 man of the national police, barely four months later. As a senior police officer, he conducted the transfer of police training programs from the Philippine Public Safety College back to the Philippine National Police Academy. He also authored the Camp Crame Development Plan which aimed to decentralize the national police force offices to the provinces. He is also recognized as the brains behind the Wanted Person Information System (E-WPIS) and E-Rogue which provide online access to criminal profiles for police officers.[1]

On September 1, 2020, Cascolan was selected by President Rodrigo Duterte as the 22nd Chief of the Philippine National Police. He took up the appointment the following day after the mandatory retirement of Archie Gamboa.[7]

Personal life and death

Cascolan was married to Amelia Tanalgo of Santa Barbara, Iloilo, and they had one child together.[10]

Cascolan died on 24 November 2023, at the age of 59.[11]

Awards

Cascolan received more than 180 medals throughout his military and police career.[12] As Davao de Oro provincial police chief, he was awarded the Medalya ng Kadakilaan (PNP Heroism Medal) for his leadership and humanitarian work following the devastation of Typhoon Bopha in 2012.[4] Cascolan is also a recipient of the 2015 Country's Outstanding Police Officers in Service (COPS) award conferred by Metrobank Foundation.[13] In 2019, he also received the Award for Continuing Excellence and Service (ACES) from Metrobank.[1]

  • Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation
  • People Power II Unit Citation
  • Officer, Philippine Legion of Honor
  • Medalya ng Katapatan sa Paglilingkod (PNP Distinguished Service Medal)
  • Medalya ng Katangitanging Gawa (PNP Outstanding Achievement Medal)
  • Military Commendation Medals
  • Medalya ng Paglaban sa Manliligalig (PNP Anti-dissidence Campaign Medal)
  • Medalya ng Pagtulong sa Nasalanta (PNP Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Operations Campaign Medal)
  • Medalya ng Paglilingkod sa Luzon (PNP Luzon Campaign Medal)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kabiling, G.; Recuenco, A. (September 1, 2020). "Cascolan named PNP OIC as Gamboa retires". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Cascolan appointed as DOH undersecretary".
  3. ↑ Cawis, R.M. (September 3, 2020). "New PNP Chief is Baguio Boy". Cordillera Express. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tejano, I.C. (April 11, 2015). "Trusted leader". SunStar Davao. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  5. ↑ Mendez, C.; Tupas, E. (September 2, 2020). "Cascolan named PNP chief". The Philippine Star. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 Talabong, R. (September 1, 2020). "What to know about Camilo Cascolan, the next PNP chief". Rappler. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  7. 1 2 Aguilar, K. (September 1, 2020). "Cascolan named as next PNP chief". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  8. 1 2 Palangchao, H.F. (January 15, 2017). "Baguio boy gets PNP 2–star rank before 2020 retirement". Baguio Midland Courier. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  9. ↑ Romero, A. (November 14, 2018). "Duterte promotes Oplan Tokhang brains". The Philippine Star. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
  10. ↑ Rendon, J.P. (September 3, 2020). "New PNP chief has strong ties to Iloilo". The Daily Guardian. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  11. ↑ Rendon, J.P. (November 24, 2023). "Ex-PNP chief Camilo Cascolan passes away". ABS-CBN. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
  12. ↑ Siytangco, A.J. (October 22, 2019). "Meet the top three PNP chief candidates". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Outstanding police officers named". Rappler. August 17, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
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