The Highway Patrol Group (HPG) will have a new director following a minor revamp that affected three other senior officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
Police Brig. Gen. Gregory B Bogñalbal will take over the helm of the HPG on Friday, Nov. 5, based on the reorganization that was ordered by PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar.
A member of the PNP Academy Class of 1994, Bogñalbal served as the Operations chief of the Special Action Force and provincial director of the Quirino Police Provincial Office.
Bogñalbal will replace Police Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum who was named as the new regional director of the Police Regional Office 12.
Tagum, on the other hand, will replace Police Brig. Gen. Michael john Dubria who will be the head of the Directorate for Intelligence.
The position that would be vacated by Bogñalbal as Senior Executive Assistant at the Office of the Chief PNP will be taken over by Police Col. Neri Vincent Ignacio who is from the Directorate for Comptrollership.