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Camilo Cascolan
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. 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. He was the first Cordilleran to lead the country's national police force.
Cascolan served five years with the Philippine Constabulary and 28 years with the PNP. 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.
Camilo Pancratius Pascua Cascolan was born on November 10, 1964, 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. Cascolan had originally planned to enter the priesthood, but eventually chose to pursue a military career upon his parents' advice. 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.
Cascolan later earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of the Philippines Visayas in 1995.
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 del Norte 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Camilo Cascolan
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. 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. He was the first Cordilleran to lead the country's national police force.
Cascolan served five years with the Philippine Constabulary and 28 years with the PNP. 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.
Camilo Pancratius Pascua Cascolan was born on November 10, 1964, 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. Cascolan had originally planned to enter the priesthood, but eventually chose to pursue a military career upon his parents' advice. 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.
Cascolan later earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of the Philippines Visayas in 1995.
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 del Norte 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.
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.
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.
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.
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