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A new PNP provincial director is slated to assume this week as Police Senior Supt. Rodolfo Llorca is on his was out to end his four-month stint as police chief based at Camp Dagohoy.

"Well, this is a normal part of the service wherein you are given a new assignment in the military," Llorca said when interviewed over dyRD yesterday regarding his impending transfer.

He said he got some "unfinished jobs" like his much publicized unique style in running against drug pushers which could not take off until words for his reassignment came the other day. He also envisioned to place the Bohol Road Safety Plan which was targeted to minimize the number of road accidents here.

Police Senior Supt. Constantino Barot Jr. fresh from his assignment at the United Nations peace keeping forces abroad will succeed Llorca. The incoming provincial director was previously assigned in Negros Oriental and lately in Camp Crame.
         
Regional PNP Director Ager Ontog Jr. is slated to administer the formal turnover of command by the middle of this week.

Llorca's reassignment came while the public awaits updates on the whereabouts of Bohol's most wanted robbery suspects, AlfredoTorregosa and Joel Nuez who reportedly escaped during the operation conducted by SWAT operatives in Loon town last Aug. 26 where six other suspects were arrested.

Llorca will end his stint here amid reports that Gov. Edgar Chatto has requested a new provincial director to be assigned here.

When asked to comment, the governor said it is the "prerogative of the governor to choose the PNP provincial director, one, whom he can work with for effective implementation of the peace and order measures in the entire province."

A highly placed source at the Capitol told the Chronicle that Llorca did not show up during two meetings of the Provincial Peace and Order Council convened by the governor as chairman of the body and another meeting of the Provincial Development Council. Llorca, instead merely sent his representative

The same reliable source said that with his "hands on" management-style, Gov. Chatto conducted consultations with key provincial officials as well as with the municipal mayors, including the rank and file of the PNP in reaching such move to transfer Llorca.

The outgoing provincial director recently got the ire of some of the officers of the Bohol Bankers Association after he recommended that the unserviceable SWAT van donated by the group be converted into a holding area for jaywalkers along CPG Avenue, this city.

Reacting to Llorca's statement, bankers president Rodney Lumuthang said the group will ask for the return of the van if it will just be used for such purpose.

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