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.  

In the late ‘80s, PSupt Turla first began to make his name as a counter-insurgency agent, with street-level armed encounters with members of the Alex Boncayao Brigade’s Sparrow Unit and NPA men collecting “taxes” from rice traders.  

The shooting death of a police corporal was avenged with the PSupt Turla’s capture of ABB hitman Noel Perez. In the ‘90s, PSupt Turla’s swift actions took robbers involved in house break-ins and robberies that involved hundreds of thousands of pesos.  

The people of Pasay are lucky to have this hometown hero on their side, specially as he marshalls the Pasay Station’s resources in empowering the civilians in law enforcement.  

He has created programs that enabled seminars on drug abuse, crime prevention, and parenting skills into workplaces and schools.  

The establishment of Project COMPACT (Community and Police Against Crime and Terrorism) made civilians complicit in making their own communities crime-free, and provided Pasay Station with a steady stream of information on criminals.