ID-100283336Philippine Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon has appointed officers-in-charge (OICs) to several senior positions at the Bureau of Customs (BOC) that had been vacant since August 1.

Signed on August 18, Customs Personnel Order (CPO) No. B-45-2016 designates five current Customs officials as OIC deputy commissioners for BOC’s five major groups—Enforcement Group (EG), Intelligence Group (IG), Internal Administration Group (IAG), Assessment and Operations Coordinating Group (AOCG), Revenue Collection Monitoring Group (RCMG), and Management Information System and Technology Group (MISTG).

The designation takes effect immediately.

CPO B-45-2016 also named other Customs officials to head nine BOC offices.

For a copy of CPO No. B-45-2016, click here.

The posts were vacated after the one-month extension of service of officials appointed under the previous Aquino administration, which expired last July 31.

The new OIC deputy commissioners for the five BOC groups are Arnel Alcaraz (EG), Ma. Liza Sebastian (IG), Arturo Lachica (IAG), Melita Del Rosario (AOCG), Marlon Melodias (RCMG), and Jaime Taborda (MISTG).

Most of the designated officials will be serving concurrently with their existing posts.

Alcaraz and Sebastian are currently Collectors of Customs V; Del Rosario, acting chief of the Valuation and Classification Divisions, AOCG; Melodias, acting chief of the Prosecution and Litigation Division, RMCG; and Taborda, OIC Planning and Management Information Division, MISTG. Lachica is a Career Executive Service Officer II.

The IC directors for the nine offices are Joseph Escasio (Administration Office, IAG), Alfredo Palma (Financial Management Office), Alvin Guiam (Import and Assessment Service, AOCG), Nanie Koh (Port Operations Service, AOCG), Erwin Mendoza (Legal Service, and executive director of Run Against Smugglers Group, RCMG), Cecile Marie Soriano (Financial Service, RCMG), Ma. Lourdes Llamson Uy (Collection Service, RCMG), Marlon Alameda (Enforcement and Security Service, EG), and Arneth Von Carmen Manquiquis (Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service, IG). – Roumina Pablo

Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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