Pnp chief alan purisima biography books

Director General Alan L.M. Purisima of the Philippine National Police served under several police investigation and intelligence units, led various special task forces and was appointed to the top police post in Metro Manila before taking over as PNP chief.

Purisima, appointed as the 18th PNP chief on Dec. 18, 2012, was a member of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) that guarded President Aquino's family during the military coup attempts on the administration of his mother, the late President Corazon Aquino.

He was the intelligence officer/commanding officer of the PSG in 1987 and was the executive officer of the PSG's Special Reaction Unit from 1988 to 1989, the latter involving the most serious power grab against the Aquino administration.

He also became a police intelligence officer in Pangasinan and chief of the District Police Investigation Unit of the Western Police Distr