Sr. Supt. William Macavinta was designated officer-in-charge last week as Caloocan City police chief. He relieved Sr. Supt. Geronimo Reside. Chief Supt. Pedro Tango, Northern Police District head, designated Macavinta, former provincial director of Aklan.
Reside was absent during the turnover rites at the police headquarters. He just came from the hospital due to hypertension after he almost collapsed upon learning from higher authorities of his relief. However, Tango said "the change of command was in due course. It is part of the normal police procedure in assigning police officials to other posts to give them an opportunity to perform in a higher post." He said without elaborating on Reside’s new assignment.
According to Tango, he was merely carrying out an order from the capital region hierarchy, stressing that the outgoing official had to follow the official directive.
A member of the Philippine Military Academy batch ’78, Reside served in Caloocan for nine months after replacing Senior Supt. Leo Garra, who was given a new post at Camp Crame.
To his credit, several cases were solved under his watch through the efforts of Supt. Nap Cuaton, who then headed the Station Investigation and Detective Management Bureau./BY GIGI DAVID /MPmailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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