1. Vicente Danao has been with the Philippine National Police for over 29 years and has served as Officer-in-Charge of the Philippine National Police from May to August 2022, Deputy Chief for Operations, Chief of the National Capital Region Police Office from 2020 until 2022, deputy director for operations of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, as task force commander under the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs, and as chief of police in two cities and two regions.
Vicente Danao is a native of Nueva Vizcaya and was born on August 10,1967.
Vicente Danao was raised in Bayombong and attended Saint Mary's College where he completed his high school education in 1984.
Vicente Danao then entered the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio where he received his officer cadet training as a part of the graduating class of 1991, the PMA Sambisig Class.
Vicente Danao was drafted into the Southern Mindanao Regional Special Action Force immediately after completing his military training in 1991.
Vicente Danao was commissioned as a junior officer deployed in the operations against Communist insurgents and was stationed in the province of Surigao del Sur for four years.
Vicente Danao earned his first promotion to Senior Inspector the following year when he began serving as station commander.
For eleven years beginning in 1996, Vicente Danao was posted to five different districts in Davao City as a station chief.
Vicente Danao was first posted to the Baguio police station, followed by Marilog in 1998, and Calinan in 1999 which he headed until 2002 and where he received his second promotion as Chief Inspector in 2000.
Vicente Danao served briefly as station chief for Sasa district and as head of the Davao City Police Office anti-vice regulation unit before his designation as Talomo police chief with his rank upgraded to Police Superintendent in 2003.
Vicente Danao then moved up to the Davao Region Police Regional Office XI and took up the post of Deputy Director for Operation in 2007.
Vicente Danao served as the region's chief of the Security Agencies and Group Supervisions Division in the same year.
Vicente Danao held three more posts at the regional office before returning to the Davao City Police Office in 2013: Director of the PRO11 Regional Mobile Group ; Deputy Director for Logistics Research and Development ; and Director for Logistics Research and Development.
Vicente Danao revived the Oplan Tokhang program started by his predecessor to address the city's persistent drug problem.
In September 2014, Vicente Danao figured in a domestic abuse controversy with his wife, Susie Vicente Danao.
Videos of Vicente Danao beating his wife circulated on social media which led to the filing of a complaint and a temporary suspension.
Vicente Danao was reinstated to his post one month later after being cleared in an investigation.
Vicente Danao served as Davao police chief until the end of Mayor Duterte's term in June 2016.
Vicente Danao transferred to the PNP Directorate for Intelligence in Camp Crame as counterintelligence chief at the start of Duterte's term as president.
Vicente Danao served as Deputy Chief for Operations of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group until 2018.
In May 2017, Vicente Danao assumed command of the National Anti-Illegal Drugs Task Force under the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs.
Vicente Danao then transferred to the nation's capital and served as Chief of the Manila Police District beginning November 2018 where he received his promotion to Police Chief Superintendent equivalent to Brigadier General rank.
Vicente Danao was then assigned with the Police Regional Office IV-A based in Calamba, Laguna in October 2019.
Vicente Danao received the Medalya ng Kadakilaan for his leadership and outstanding performance in the successful rescue of an Indian kidnapped victim in Davao City in April 2015.
Vicente Danao received three separate commendations from the Mayor of Davao City for the arrest of suspects in the killing of businessman Ramon Garcia in June 2014, and for solving the Matina massacre in New Lanzona Village and the arrest of the Balbacua gang members involved in the killing of a foreigner during his tenure as Talomo police chief.