Police Superintendent Samuel Pomasin Turla 

Deputy Chief of Police for Administration 

Pasay City Police Station 

Pasay City  

What can you say about a man who has dedicated 31 years of his life to the service of the Philippine National Police? Thank you, of course, and then there’s the remarkable career of Police Superintendent Samuel Pomasin Turla, which will make people sit agape at his bravery, honesty and selflessness in the performance of his duty.  

As the Deputy Chief of Police for Administration of the Pasay City Police Station.

Beginning his career with a degree in Criminology from the Philippine College of Criminology, PSupt Turla has faced down gunrunners, communist insurgents, armed robbers and errant fellow policemen in his three-decade run with the PNP.  

Police Superintendent Steve Bentican Ludan 

Chief, Budget & Fiscal Office 

PNP Aviation Security Group 

Baguio City 

A man with four degrees, one of them from the Philippine Military Academy and another in law, has decided to dedicate 22 years of his life to serve and protect his fellow man by joining the Philippine National Police.  

Meet PSupt Steve Bentican Ludan, the Chief of the Budget and Fiscal Office of the PNP Aviation Security Group. In the takedown of the Apeng Santos Kidnap For Ransom Group, PSupt Ludan enforced case build-up and follow-up operations and, upon tracking down the suspects and their hostages, he took on the role of chief negotiator.  

Police Chief Inspector Delia Jacob Ingalla

Chief, Women and Children Protection Desk (WCPD)/ Family, Juvenile, Gender and Development (FJGAD) Section

Taguig City Police Station 

The office of a women’s and children’s protection desk is a fraught one: every day, stories of abuse, neglect and betrayal are what face the men and women who front it.

Police Chief Inspector Delia Jacob Ingalla, leadership of the Women and Children Protection Desk (WCPD) and Family, Juvenile, Gender (FJGAD) Section has made the Taguig City Police Station a leader in the metropolitan area.

On its roster is a list of 30 rescued victims, incurred with zero to minimal cost to their families, a record of its kind.

And this is just the beginning of PCInsp Ingalla’s remarkable work.

Senior Police Officer 1  Manuel Almadrigo Padlan 

PCR Member/ Chief, Traffic Management Division, Public Order and Safety Department 

Antipolo City Police Station 

Pililla, Rizal  

The arrest of suspects in a high-profile mayoral killing.

The rescue of kidnap-for-ransom victims. The pursuit of robbers and criminal gangs.  

The conclusion of a controversial double-murder case.

Senior Police Officer 1 Manuel Almadrigo Padlan’s resume is never short of big arrests, and it is for these achievements that the Metrobank Foundation celebrates his accomplishments and one of the country’s outstanding policemen.  

Senior Police Officer 4 Emmanuel Portillo Isiang 

Chief Investigator  

Investigation and Detection Management Section, Surigao del Sur Police Provincial Office 

Lianga, Surigao del Sur  

An English major as the police force’s new detective sounds like the beginning of a pulp novel, but it is a fortuitous path that has brought Senior Police Officer 4 Emmanuel Portillo Isiang to the service of the people of his home province, Surigao del Sur.  

To be fair, the cases he has worked on as a detective – pursuing robbers, assassins, insurgents, drug pushers, and kidnappers – sound like fictional exploits.

But SPO4 Isiang knows that police work isn’t just action heroics.  

Senior Police Officer 2 Helen Lapay Dela Cruz 

Women and Children Protection Desk Investigator 

National Capital Region, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (NCR-CIDG) 

Sasa, Davao City  

To the charges that the PNP is ineffectual and corrupt, we offer up the record of Senior Police Officer 2 Helen Lapay dela Cruz, Investigator for the Women and Children Protection Desk of NCR-Criminal investigation and Detection Group (NCR-CIDG).  

A lawyer and criminologist by education, SPO2 Dela Cruz is one of the finest detectives of the PNP: a record-holder of her kind, and a defender of women’s and children’s rights by avocation.