Aklan police director retires after 30 years of public service

BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL

With more than 30 years of law enforcement service, Aklan police director Colonel Ramir Perlito Paradero Perlas retires to spend more time with family.

Perlas assumed the Aklan Police Provincial Office on January 20, 2021, serving as the high-ranking police officer of the province of Aklan for around 11 months. 

APPO rendered retirement honors to Perlas on Friday afternoon at Camp Pastor Martelino in New Buswang, Kalibo, Aklan. 

Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) Regional Director Brigadier General Flynn Dongbo, Chief Regional Staff Police Colonel Martin Defensor, acting chief of Regional Personnel and Records Management Division Police Colonel Lope Manlapaz and regional chaplain Police Lt. Col. Mark Virgil Ibardolaza graced the occasion. 

“I have mixed emotions of sadness and joy. It is sadness for it will be my last official talk as Aklan provincial police director, and joy and happiness because I had made it until the end of my police career. I have no choice but bid my farewell to everyone,” Perlas stressed. 

Perlas said he is definitely leaving for good to cope things he had set aside after he spent over three decades of public service.

“Siguro panahon na upang makabawi naman ako sa pamilya ko.”

“For the past few years, I have learned the value of having a positive and enthusiastic group of co-workers, and you are part of it.  I have witnessed colleagues who have untirely given their time and resources for the enhancement of the image and credibility of the police organization, “ he pointed out

Perlas also lauded his men and women of Aklan PPO for their dedicated service and display of tremendous efforts to build long lasting relationships with the communities. 

“I want to acknowledge everyone for making my term in Aklan PPO dynamic and memorable. It only takes few words and encouragement to make our personnel commit to their jobs on a daily basis, even the situation gets tough. I thank you for your unwavering support, goodwill to perform your sworn duties in the name of public service, despite the inevitable circumstances and difficulties,” Perlas added. 

Perlas started off as a secondary school teacher in Boracay National High School in Malay, Aklan in 1988 after he obtained his college education in Northwestern Visayan Colleges in Kalibo, Aklan.

Perlas belongs to Philippine National Police Academy Class 1993 Tagapaglunsad. 

In 2002, he was a former United Nations peacekeeper in Timor-Lieste (East Timor). He also worked with the Regional Mobile Group in Negros Occidental and the police stations of Batan, Aklan and Molo, Iloilo City.

He became the police provincial director of Dinagat Islands and Agusan del Sur and chief of the Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division of PRO-Caraga Administrative Region before being assigned to Aklan.