Macavinta installed as Caloocan City’s new police chief
BY GIGI DAVID

SENIOR Supt. Geronimo Reside, Caloocan City police chief, has stepped down, giving way to his successor Supt. William Macavinta, who was designated as officer-in-charge yesterday.
Chief Supt. Pedro Tango, Northern Police District head, designated Macavinta, former provincial director of Aklan.
Reside, who was absent during the turnover rites at the police headquarters, said that he just came from the hospital due to hypertension after he almost collapsed upon being informed by higher authorities of his relief.
But Tango said the change of command was in due course.
“It is part of the normal police procedure in asigning officials to other posts to give them an opportunity to perform in a higher post,” he said, without elaborating on Reside’s new assignment.
He said he was merely carrying out an order from the capital region hierarchy, stressing that the outgoing official had to follow the official directive.
A member of the Philippine Military Academy batch ’78, Reside served in Caloocan for nine months after replacing Senior Supt. Leo Garra, who was given a new post at Camp Crame.
To his credit, several cases were solved under his watch through the efforts of Supt. Nap Cuaton, who then headed the Station Investigation and Detective Management Bureau.