Reynaldo G. Wycoco (November 10, 1946 – December 19, 2005) was a Filipino retired

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who formerly served as Director of the National Bureau of Investigation.

Career

Police service

Hails from

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and graduate of class 1968 in the

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, Wycoco served in the

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(PC) as member of Ranger Battalion in 1969, where he was assigned as the Battalion Intelligence and Operations Officer in

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. This is the time where Central Luzon was a center of communist armed insurgency. In 1980, still at service, he obtained his Master's degree in Public Administration from the

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. He also take short graduate courses at the

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, as he believes that "if you don’t innovate, you’ll stagnate" and for the improving of police work, especially with cooperating with the community. He also studied in the US Army Intelligence Center in

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and in the intriguingly named Political Warfare and Allied Intelligence School in

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, as he think that learning of right collection and handling of information, can be a crucial change for a country. When the PC became the

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(PNP), he became a police officer specializing in intelligence. Later, Wycoco served as chief of the

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(NCRPO) in 1998 until 1999. He also served as spokesperson of the PNP, and retired with the rank of now called Police Lieutenant General (then known as Police Deputy Director General) while serving as deputy chief for administration in 2001.

NBI director

He was appointed by President

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as the NBI director on January 25, 2001, and his appointment was criticized due to lack of background to law or not being a lawyer. He was tasked to lead an investigation against the crimes of

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's Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF). And while in the middle of Wycoco's tenure, NBI solve more high-profile cases.

Popular culture

Wycoco appeared in 2003 film ''NBI Files: The Cory Quirino Kidnap,'' and credited by some showbiz columnists that he looks like an action star.

Personal life

He is a member of religious sect

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. After him, another member of the said sect was appointed as director of NBI, named

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, also a former police general and lawyer formerly headed the

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Death

When Wycoco still the NBI director, he suffered stroke resulted to coma on November 23, 2005. He died at the age of 59 on December 19, 2005, at the Manila Doctor's Hospital in

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due to hemorrhagic stroke. He was buried at the

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on December 24, 2005.

References

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Filipino police chiefs Philippine Constabulary personnel Filipino police officers 20th-century Filipino lawyers Directors of the National Bureau of Investigation of the Philippines People from Nueva Ecija Members of Iglesia ni Cristo 1946 births 2005 deaths Harvard Kennedy School alumni