Metrobank Foundation bestows ACES Award to Igorot Police Officer PSupt. Byron Allatog

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Cordillera - Police Inspector Byron F. Allatog received an award from the Metrobank Foundation Inc. for his excellence in doing his job as a police officer." during the ACES awarding ceremony in 2019.

Police Inspector Bryron Filog Allatog, who was the Chief of Police of La Trinidad Municipal Station in 2014, worked not only as the head of the municipal police force in upholding peace and order, but also ensured the high trust and confidence from the community. 

His flagship project, dubbed "Strawberry Policing", is an example of well-organized, responsive, sustainable, and effective anti-criminality program that harness the strengths of the police force, local government and the community.

Under Allatog's leadership, La Trinidad police force developed a community mapping system for citizen identification and verification purposes, and organized various sectors into force multipliers and self-policing neighborhood watches, which led to a significant decrease in incidents of theft and physical violence. 

Before he was assigned as Chief of Police, PCInsp. Allatog was assigned in southern Mindanao. 

Among his notable accomplishment from the early stage of his career was the arrest of a notorious gun-for-hire involved in the murder of a fellow police officer and his two daughters in Tawi-tawi. 

He also oversaw the apprehension of the Lepanto heist mastermind after hiding for almost 10 years. 

Before serving in the Philippines, Allatog was among the contingent in the United Nations Peacekeeping Efforts. He was a member of the UN-Close Security and Protection Officer of the UN Police Commissioner and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Temor Leste.

He has taken numerous trainings and courses  in policing from different high-level police agencies like the Criminal Investigation and Detective Development Courses by the PNP Detective Schools, Supervisory Management and Criminal Investigation Course from the US Department of Justice, Police Intelligence Officers Course by the PNP Intelligence Training Group and FBI National Academy Session 265 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI).

Allatog, then moved to Bogo City in Cebu province and was assigned as the Chief of Police. He made the town drug free. 

PCInsp. Allatog graduated with a degree in Public Safety from the Philippine National Police Academy in 2001.