Jolly R. Bugarin

Jolly R. Bugarin (* in Calapan City , Oriental Mindoro ; † September 2002 ) was a Filipino criminologist , criminalist , long-time director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and from 1980 to 1984 president of the international police organization Interpol .

biography

Bugarin graduated after attending the Elementary School and High School in Calapan studying law at the University of the Philippines and acquired there in 1939 a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). After the United States entered World War II in 1941, he began his military service as a soldier. He belonged to the 2nd Regular Division under the command of General Guillermo Francisco and one of the survivors of the Bataan death march in 1942. He later joined the Philippine Constabulary as a police officer and was promoted to captain as a documentary specialist .

In 1951 he began studying police and public administration as an exchange student at Washington State College (WSC) . After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts (BA), he continued his studies as part of a postgraduate course, which he completed in 1955 with a Master of Arts (MA).

Upon his return to the Philippines in 1955, he became a recognized expert in the authentication of documents and certificates. As such, he was also used on behalf of the National Electoral Commission ( Commission on Election (COMELEC) ) in alleged electoral fraud cases in the national elections of the 1960s. At the same time, he was employed as an appraiser for the conclusion of contracts by government, banks and companies. In 1961 he was a graduate of the General Staff Course of the Command General Staff School of the Philippine Armed Forces ( Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) ) and retired as a colonel from active military service in 1962 . He then worked as a lawyer as well as a consultant for criminology and banking security.

In 1967 President Ferdinand Marcos appointed him director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). He remained in this position until he retired in 1986. In 1980 he succeeded Carl. G. Persson was also President of Interpol and was replaced in this position by John R. Simpson in 1984 after a four-year term .

Bugarin became a Freemason in 1946 and was first master of his Masonic Lodge Tamaraw Lodge No. 65 . After several other offices, he finally became Grand Master of the Grand Lodge Temple in 1979 .

Web links

• Ricardo Saclote Morada: So This Is the Good Old United States of America !: An Ordinary Man's Extraordinary Fifty Fantastic Years in America! AuthorHouse, 2006, ISBN 1-4259-5374-3 , pp. 73, 78, 80 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
• GRAND LODGE TEMPLE - PAST GRAND MASTERS

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quezon City Lodge No. 122 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.