YOUNG POLICEMAN KILLED BY ABU SAYYAF WAS A BEMEDALLED OFFICER
Since joining the Philippine National Police on June 14, 2011, PO2 Rey Anthony Nazareno received five awards for his service, including the Medalya ng Papuri given by Police Regional Office 7 Director Noli Taliño last Nov. 18. Nazareno, 30, had just completed his training in Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) and was assigned to the Bohol Provincial Police Office’s Swat team. His promising police career abruptly ended when he was killed by Abu Sayyaf bandits who attacked Sitio Ylaya, Barangay Napo in Inabanga town, Bohol early Tuesday morning.
PO2 Rey Anthony Nazareno, one of the four government troopers killed in the Inabanga, Bohol clash last Tuesday, was a fresh graduate from the Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) training.
“Siya ay isang binata (He was single),” said Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas director.
Nazareno was 30. He entered the police service as a PO1 on June 14, 2011.
He received five awards in his five-year career: two Medalya ng Kasanayan, Medalya ng Kagalingan, Medalya ng Paglilingkod sa Visayas, and Medalya ng Papuri.
Taliño gave the Medalya ng Papuri on Nov. 18, 2016.
For Nazareno’s heroism, Taliño said the officer will receive a posthumous award. His family will also receive financial assistance.
The officer was born on Oct. 24, 1986 in Barili, Cebu. His parents, Gaudencia and Dominador Sr., are from Ulbujan, Calape, Bohol.
Nazareno graduated from Ulbujan Elementary School in 1997, and Calape National High School in 2001.
He took up Bachelor of Science in Criminology at University of Cebu in Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue (UCLM) and graduated in 2010. /