Igorot PNPA grad 4th placer in class

By Christian Jay Tan

BAGUIO CITY -- Police cadet Ferdinand Mark Haguiling Lagchana, 22, from Bato-Alatbang, Mayoyao, Ifugao is a graduating fourth placer of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) class this year.

Lagchana is the last of the seven children of Marcelo Lagchana, a security guard and Virginia Lagchana, a nurse. His father passed on when he was 12 years old.

He studied BS Civil Engineering before he took a BS Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya before entering PNPA. He wanted to help his family so he went to the academy.

“I came from a family wherein three of my brothers are graduates of the PMMA. I’ve witnessed the hardship of my brothers working in other countries for months leaving their families behind. This made me change course and had chosen to enter in the police service through PNPA,” he said.

PNPA information officer Byron Allatog said that, 29 of the 201 who will graduate the PNPA Sansiklab Class of 2019 are from the Cordilleras.

Sansiklab stands for Sandigan ng Mamamayan na may Sigasig na Itaguyod ang Kapayapaan at Ipaglaban ang Bayan.

There are 154 males and 47 females in the class set for graduation rites with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Safety. Their graduation ceremony will be held on March 22.