BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental, Philippines – Young police colonel Joeresty Coronica has become one of the younger, if not the youngest director of the Bacolod City Police Office, a law enforcement unit that handles 10 police stations that has, in the past years, been described as undermanned against a growing half a million people.
Coronica, who will give his first briefer tomorrow at the main police station in Magsaysay Avenue, takes over from Colonel Noel Aliño who has been promoted to head the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Camp Crame.
Aliño had long been absent from the public eye since his take over more than a year ago, rarely calling for a new conference and being picky with media interviews.
The bemedaled Coronica is no stranger to the BCPO, serving in various posts before he was promoted to head a unit at Camp Montelibano where the Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office is based.
The Candoni town native is now a resident here where he had been living for a long time in Mansilingan village.
