Guevarra appoints BuCor OIC

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:59:47 +0000

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra yesterday appointed Bureau of Corrections  Deputy Director General Melvin Ramon Buenafe as BuCor officer-in-charge while Malacanang has yet to replace sacked Director General Nicanor Faeldon.

Guevarra issued Department Order No. 468 authorizing Buenafe, subject to applicable laws, rules, and regulations, “to adopt strict measures to ensure the integrity and proper safekeeping of the official records, particularly records of good conduct time allowances and other similar time credits.”

The Justice Secretary also instructed Buenafe “to take appropriate steps for the formal revocation of release orders improvidently issued and for the re-commitment of Persons Deprived of Liberty erroneously released from prison.”

Guevarra cited that the order is pursuant to the verbal directive made by President Duterte during a press conference last Wednesday.

He also issued Department Order No. 469 which created an Interim Oversight Committee over the BuCor. The committee has been tasked to “exercise close administrative supervision over the BuCor until such time that a new Director General for the BuCor has been appointed by the President.”

The committee is composed of Justice Undersecretary Deo Marco and Assistant Secretaries Neal Vincent Bainto and George Ortha II.

Meanwhile, despite firing him due to the
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