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PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed retired judge Jaime Santiago as director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Santiago took his oath of office before Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Friday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Santiago finished BS Criminology at the Philippine College of Criminology (PCCR) from 1978 to 1988 and took up Law at the Manuel L. Quezon University (MLQU-LAW) from 1989 to 1993.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He served at the Philippine National Police (PNP) Western Police District from 1979 to 2000. As a dutiful police officer at the WPD, he went against sinister individuals who threatened the peace and order in Manila.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A sharpshooter from the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team during his heyday in Manila\u2019s Finest, Santiago rose to fame, his life featured in a 1996 Filipino biographical action film.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Santiago served as Criminal Law professor at the Emilio Aguinaldo College, Philippine College of Criminology and Emilio Aguinaldo College.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Santiago also served as the acting executive\/presiding judge of the Regional Trial Courts (RTCs) in the cities of Manila and Tagaytay, and a former Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) judge of Manila City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He served as the assistant city prosecutor of the Department of Justice-Office of the City Prosecutor (DOJ-OCP) from October 2003 to December 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Santiago is also a former Deputy Executive Vice President of the Philippine Judges Association and former President of the Metropolitan and City Judges Association of the Philippines (METCJAP).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He was also named one of the 10 Outstanding Policemen of the Philippines (TOPP) by the Philippine Jaycees in 2009 and Outstanding Criminologist by the Professional Regulation Commission in 2012. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed retired judge Jaime Santiago as director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Santiago took his oath of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}