CIDG-7 has new chief

CEBU, Philippines - Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-7 chief Senior Superintendent Ritchie Posadas yesterday bade farewell to his subordinates and to Cebu media as he introduced the new official to replace him at CIDG-7.

Effective also yesterday, Superintendent Marlon Ta-yaba assumed as the new acting chief of CIDG-7 as Posadas was transferred to Camp Crame as the new chief of the Major Crimes Investigation Unit of CIDG.

Posadas headed CIDG-7 since August 2013 and during his leadership, the unit has been regarded by its superior, CIDG chief Police Director Benjamin Magalong, as the “most performing regional unit.”

It was also during Posadas’ stint that at least three high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines were apprehended with the help of the Philippine National Police and of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Among them were spouses Benito and Wilma Tiamzon who were arrested in the boundaries of Aloguinsan town and Carcar City March this year.

Posadas, in an interview with the media, said he is grateful for the help of the community in the success of their operations that resulted to the arrest and the dismantling of some criminal groups in Cebu.

“I would like to thank the community and the whole Region 7 for the support; we were able to accomplish the mandate from our director, Police Director Benjamin Magalong,” he said.  

Posadas is now looking on leading a city or a provincial police office so as to advance his career and achieve his dream of having a star rank.

Tayaba, for his part, assured to do his best to be at par with Posadas in what the latter had done for CIDG-7 in the past two years. His assignment as a regional chief is a first for him and this is also his first time to be assigned in Cebu, he said.

 He had been assigned at Region 6, he further said, so that he already has an idea of the culture of the Visayan people having been married to an Ilonga.

Tayaba graduated from PMA in 1993 and is under the same class with Senior Superintendent Pablo Labra II, the former chief of the Regional Intelligence Division-7, and Senior Superintendent Clifford Gairanod, commander of the Regional Public Safety Battalion-7. — (FREEMAN)