By Mortz C. Ortigoza
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A grateful retired police brigadier general told the mayor here how proud his former mayor father when the chief executive graduated at the Philippine Military Academy.
“Thank you sir! it’s such a coincidence that my dad was the mayor when you graduated from PMA Class ‘76 and now my daughter Shen graduated from the PNPA with you as the mayor. My dad too was so proud of you as one of the few graduates of PMA from Lingayen to whom he has high regards. Kaya pinilit niya ako mag PMA din maski ang gusto ko talaga ay magpari,” former Pangasinan Police Director Mariano Luis “Sonny” Verzosa, Jr. told this capital town’s mayor Leopoldo Bataoil.
Both are members of PMA Classes of 1976 and 1984, respectively.
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CADETS.
Philippine Military Academy cadets Leopoldo Bataoil (top photo counter clockwise)
Mariano Luis “Sonny” Verzosa, Jr. and Verzosa’s daughter Philippine National
Police Academy’s cadet Shen Verzosa who graduated recently at the police
college’s version of the PMA. Bataoil and Verzosa ,who retired as police
generals, are members of PMA Classes of 1976 and 1984, respectively.
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Before being elected as mayor at the May 13, 2019 Election, Bataoil was a nine years’ congressman in the eight towns’ Pangasinan Second District.
Police Lieutenant Shen Versoza graduated as Mandayug Class 2020 of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) in Silang, Cavite last May 22 this year.
Before hurdling the tough entrance examination of the PNPA, the athletic Verzosa finished in 2015 her Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Development Management at the Assumption College in Makati City.
PMA stopped sending commissioned officers to the police when Republic Act No. 6975 (Act Establishing the PNP Under A Reorganized DILG, And For Other Purposes) became operational in 1991.
From chasing hardened Moro commanders in Mindanao and
Basilan, he went back to his alma mater the PMA to mentor the cadets on
military science.
Just like Douglas MacArthur (USMA 1903), General John J. Pershing (USMA 1886),
and Herbert Raymond McMaster (USMA 1984) who returned from
the battlegrounds and became Superintendents and History professor at the
United States Military Academy, Bataoil went to the Tactics Group at the PMA
teaching cadets about war strategies.
From the military college in Baguio
City he was appointed by then PNP Chief Director General Cesar Nazareno to be the
Commandant of Cadets of the PNPA at Camp Castaneda, Silang, Cavite.
“Noong dinala ako
sa PNPA as Commandant of Cadets lalo akong na inspire na leadership and
management experiences ko sa field pagmamahal ko sa mga future na police
officer. So these are the glorious moment mga fulfilling moments in the life of
a career officer sa uniform service,” he told this
newspaper.
He said these experiences he brought to the PNPA, a police
version of the military oriented PMA, influenced future officers that will
carry the good customs and tradition of the service.
Aside from other positions as PC officer in the southern
part of the country, major positions occupied by the frustrated priest-to-be but
media men’s friendly Verzosa was as a colorful Dagupan City’s Police Chief,
Regional Intelligence Chief or colloquially called as “R-2, and
Officer-In-Charge Provincial Police Director of the mammoth Pangasinan
province.“As a police officer there will be many challenges that will come your way and sometimes it will bring you to the brink of losing the ideals inculcated in you by your beloved Alma Mater. Love your job and place God at the center of your career then you will never go wrong. Congratulation, we are all proud of you!” the doting father told his daughter at social media’s Facebook.
Verzosa, as presidential appointee, is presently the Vice Chairman of the Food Terminal Incorporated.
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