1. Camilo Pancratius Pascua Cascolan was a Filipino police general who served as the 24th Chief of the Philippine National Police from September to November 2020 under President Rodrigo Duterte.
38 Facts About Camilo Cascolan
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Camilo Cascolan was the first Cordilleran to lead the country's national police force.
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Camilo Cascolan graduated from the Philippine Military Academy in 1986 and joined the police force in 1992.
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Camilo Cascolan served as chief of police in three municipalities in Iloilo in the 1990s and the city of Taguig in the late 2000s.
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Camilo Cascolan then rose through the ranks to become Provincial Director of the Compostela Valley Police in 2012, Regional Deputy Chief of the former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Police in 2015, Regional Deputy Chief of the Western Visayas Police in 2016, and Regional Director of National Capital Region Police in 2018.
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Camilo Cascolan then held key leadership positions within the PNP and served as Deputy Chief for Operations of the PNP from 2019 to 2020 and Deputy Chief for Administration in 2020 before becoming the country's police chief.
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Camilo Pancratius Pascua Cascolan was born on November 10,1964, in the city of Baguio in what was then the undivided Mountain Province.
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Camilo Cascolan was initially educated at Maryknoll Convent School and later attended the University of the Philippines Baguio High School.
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Camilo Cascolan had originally planned to enter the priesthood, but eventually chose to pursue a military career upon his parents' advice.
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Camilo Cascolan signed up for the Philippine Military Academy in 1982 and graduated with the Sinagtala Class of 1986, whose alumni included his predecessors in the national police, Archie Gamboa, Oscar Albayalde and Bato de la Rosa.
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Camilo Cascolan later earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of the Philippines Visayas in 1995.
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Camilo Cascolan was then assigned to the 324th Public Company and Reconnaissance Company in Iloilo province where he would spend most of his junior and mid-level military career.
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Camilo Cascolan eventually served as officer-in-charge of the 324th Public Company and the Regional Command VI before his designation as executive officer and section leader of the Iloilo Strike Force in the same year.
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Camilo Cascolan began his law enforcement career in May 1992 when he joined the newly formed Philippine National Police as station chief of Barotac Nuevo, still in Iloilo province.
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Camilo Cascolan was based in Metro Manila from 1999 to 2007.
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Camilo Cascolan served as chief of the criminal investigation, research and special studies divisions of the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime in Camp Crame until 2001 and as member of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group until 2003.
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Camilo Cascolan then held various positions within the Aviation Security Group before transferring to Cebu City as chief of the Central Visayas ASG command in 2007.
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Camilo Cascolan returned to Manila the following year to assume command of the Taguig City Police Station until 2010.
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Camilo Cascolan then moved back to Camp Crame as case monitoring chief before being posted back to the field in Mindanao and Western Visayas.
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Camilo Cascolan served as finance chief of the Davao Region Police Office based in Davao City from 2011 to 2012.
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Camilo Cascolan was then designated as provincial director of the former Compostela Valley province for two years.
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Camilo Cascolan served briefly as regional deputy for administration of the Western Visayas Region Police Office back in Iloilo province from December 2015 to May 2016 where he received his first star rank.
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Camilo Cascolan assumed the Directorate for Operations of the PNP in June 2016 upon the appointment of his mistah Bato dela Rosa as PNP Chief.
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Camilo Cascolan was instrumental in introducing home defense security through an enhanced managing police operations manual.
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Camilo Cascolan was promoted to two-star rank in January 2017.
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Camilo Cascolan was then assigned with the National Capital Region Police Office as regional director in April 2018.
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Camilo Cascolan was removed from the post after only six weeks after disagreements with his predecessor and then-PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde who ordered a twelve-hour workday for all personnel.
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Camilo Cascolan was reassigned with the PNP Civil Security Group as a short-term director before taking on higher leadership roles in Camp Crame beginning September 2018.
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Camilo Cascolan was promoted to Chief of Directorial Staff and earned his three-star rank in October 2018.
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Camilo Cascolan then served as Deputy Chief for Operations in October 2019 and quickly rose to the position of Deputy Chief for Administration, the number 2 man of the national police, barely four months later.
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Camilo Cascolan authored the Camp Crame Development Plan which aimed to decentralize the national police force offices to the provinces.
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Camilo Cascolan is recognized as the brains behind the Wanted Person Information System and E-Rogue which provide online access to criminal profiles for police officers.
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On September 1,2020, Camilo Cascolan was selected by President Rodrigo Duterte as the 22nd Chief of the Philippine National Police.
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Camilo Cascolan took up the appointment the following day after the mandatory retirement of Archie Gamboa.
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Camilo Cascolan was married to Amelia Tanalgo of Santa Barbara, Iloilo, and they had one child together.
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Camilo Cascolan died on 24 November 2023, at the age of 59.
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Camilo Cascolan received more than 180 medals throughout his military and police career.
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Camilo Cascolan is a recipient of the 2015 Country's Outstanding Police Officers in Service award conferred by Metrobank Foundation.