Bangsamoro Officials Step Up to Guide Police Reforms

A photo released after the event shows the three newly inducted members alongside PRO-BAR officials and Torres, who also chairs the Bangsamoro Business Council, which has members across the region’s provinces and cities. (Contributed Photo)

COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Three officials from the Bangsamoro government have joined the Regional Advisory Group for Police Transformation Development (RAGPTD).

Lawyers Al-Rashid Balt, director-general of the Ministry of Public Order and Safety, and Abdul Rashid Kalim, chairperson of the Bangsamoro Human Rights Commission, along with physician-ophthalmologist Kadil Sinolinding Jr., the region’s health minister, formally took their oath as new members during the group’s meeting at the Al-Nor Complex on Tuesday, April 7.

The oath-taking was led by RAGPTD president Ronald Hallid Dimacisil Torres and Police Brigadier General Jaysen De Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office–Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR).

Balt, Kalim, and Sinolinding—who also serves as a member of the Bangsamoro Parliament—committed to support the group’s programs and initiatives promoting professionalism, community service, and humanitarian missions of the Philippine National Police (PNP) across BARMM’s five provinces and three cities.

The RAGPTD-BARMM is a multi-sectoral body composed of representatives from the academe, media, religious communities (both Muslim and Christian), the business sector, and various Bangsamoro government agencies.

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John Unson

John Unson is a veteran Filipino journalist who serves as a staff writer for the regions “Central Mindanao and BARMM” at The Philippine Star. He covers news and events in Mindanao — especially in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and the broader Central Mindanao area. His reporting spans a wide range of topics including security incidents, terrorist-related developments, drug enforcement, smuggling operations, social issues, and regional politics.

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