Catalino Cuy
| Catalino Cuy | |
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Secretary of the Interior and Local Government of the Philippines Officer-in-charge |
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Assumed office April 5, 2017 |
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| President | Rodrigo Duterte |
| Preceded by | Ismael Sueno |
| Undersecretary for Peace and Order of the Department of the Interior and Local Government | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2016 |
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| President | Rodrigo Duterte |
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| Born |
Catalino Salandanan Cuy November 25, 1957 Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Alma mater |
Mapúa Institute of Technology Philippine Military Academy Manuel L. Quezon University |
Catalino "Lito" Salandanan Cuy (born November 25, 1957) is a Filipino retired police director. He is the current Undersecretary for Peace and Order of the Philippine Department of the Interior of Local Government under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. He assumed the role of acting Secretary of the Interior and Local Government on April 5, 2017 upon the departure of Ismael Sueno who was dismissed by President Duterte following corruption allegations.
Cuy obtained his Bachelor of Science with a major in Electrical Engineering from the Mapúa Institute of Technology in Manila in 1977. The following year, he moved to Baguio to study at the Philippine Military Academy where he graduated as part of the Dimalupig Class of 1981. Cuy also received a Master degree in Public Administration from the Manuel L. Quezon University in 1994.
Cuy began his career in law enforcement after graduating from the Philippine Military Academy in 1981. He served as an aide of President Fidel Ramos before being assigned in Mindanao to join the Philippine National Police (PNP). He served as the Provincial Director of the Davao Oriental Police Office for three years starting 2002. In 2005, he was appointed as the Director of the Davao City Police Office under then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. As Davao police chief, he, along with 20 other police officers, was charged with negligence in 2012 and fined an equivalent of a month's salary by the Office of the Ombudsman for failing to control the summary killings by the alleged Davao death squads between 2005 and 2008. Following his stint in Mindanao, he became the Deputy Director for Personnel and Records Management in 2009.
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