Gen samuel pagdilao biography

Samuel Pagdilao

Independent

Born: February 13, 1957, Cotabato City

 

 

Best known for leading the 1999 rescue of Filipino-Chinese businessman Robert Uy, two-star general and PNP Special Action Forces (SAF) founder Samuel Pagdilao seeks higher office as part of the senatorial ticket of the Poe-Escudero tandem.

 

Although this is his first foray into higher legislative office, Pagdilao is no stranger to the limelight. His father, retired Colonel Samuel Salviejo Pagdilao is the incumbent mayor of Pinili, a fourth class municipality in Ilocos Norte while his mother, Anunciacion Duldulao-Pagdilao served three terms as mayor of Pinili from 2001 to 2010. The Pagdilaos have reportedly been ruling Pinli for the last two decades. His younger brother, Joel Pagdilao is also the current chief of PNP’s National Capital Region Police Office (PNP-NCRPO).

 

Drawing on his experience as former chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), his main senatorial advocacies as summarized in his tag line Kay Sir Tsip, Safe Ka! remain concentrated on peace or

ACT-CIS Partylist

Not to be confused with ACT Teachers Partylist.

Political party in the Philippines

The ACT-CIS Partylist (pronounced "act CIS"), officially the Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Partylist,[1] is a political organization which has party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines.

From 2013 to 2016, ACT-CIS was represented by former police officer Samuel Pagdilao. ACT-CIS returned to the House of Representatives in 2019, when it started to become associated with media personality brothers Erwin and Raffy Tulfo.

History

At the 2013 elections, ACT-CIS received an endorsement from the Iglesia ni Cristo.[2][3] The organization's seat was filled in by former police officer Samuel Pagdilao who had a platform against crime.[4][5]

For the 2016 election, Samuel Pagdilao forego from being included in the nominee list for ACT-CIS to run for Senator.[5] The ACT-CIS nominee list is led by first-nominee samuel's wife Maria Rosella Pagdilao.

I’M referring to now retired Major General Joel Pagdilao of Philippine Military Academy ‘Maharlika’ Class of 1984 who got the best Christmas gift he could ever get after the Court of Appeals reversed a decision of former President Rodrigo Duterte to dismiss him from the police force over his alleged failure to curb the illegal drug trade in Metro Manila.

For me, the CA verdict which favored the former Quezon City Police district director who became the National Capital Region Police Office director in July 2015 will also be truly beneficial to other PMA graduates who suffered during the 6-year Duterte administration after they were branded by the firebrand official as ‘Narco-Generals.’

During the entire Duterte presidency, the officials led by then Deputy Director General Marcelo Garbo were subjected to regular tirades by the Commander-in-Chief and after being out from the service, were stripped of their bodyguards, licensed firearms and government benefits and worst of all, placed under surveillance.

Fortunately, they survived thru those years, thanks to the support of their

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