Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Dionardo Carlos announced on Wednesday the designation of Colonel Jean Fajardo as his official spokesperson.
At a news conference in Camp Crame, Carlos formally introduced Fajardo, a lawyer, as his official spokesperson, vice newly promoted Brig. Gen. Roderick Augustus Alba.
Alba will assume the full-time position of chief of the PNP Public Information Office (PIO), the official publicist of the PNP, in addition to his other duties as PNP head coordinator with the Presidential Task Force on Media Security and executive producer of PNP public affairs programs on radio, television and social-media platforms.
Alba is a member of the PNPA Class of 1992.
Fajardo, a member of the PNPA Class of 1996, graduated from Jose Rizal University College of Law and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2009.
She was a former deputy director for operations of the PNP Drug Enforcement Group (DEG), former PNP provincial director of Pampanga and former PIO chief of Police Regional Office 3.
Sharp drop in NCR crime
Meanwhile, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) registered a sharp decline in focus crime cases over the past 14 months.
The latest NCR Crime Statistics recorded a total of 109,079 focus crimes from November 10, 2020, to January 23, 2022, a 16.9-percent drop from the 131,230 incidents covering the period of September 5, 2019 to November 9, 2020.
The focus crimes include homicide, physical injury, robbery, theft, vehicle theft, motorcycle theft and rape.
Among these incidents, cases of physical injuries posted the biggest reduction of 42 percent from 1,934 to 934; robbery with 22-percent drop and theft, with 16-percent decrease.
NCRPO chief Major Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. attributed the downtrend to the “trust and confidence” of the public through “support and cooperation on the programs of the PNP, particularly in the fight against all forms of criminality.”