LOOK: Año in meeting with Albayalde, Gamboa

Oscar Albayalde, Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa and Interior Secretary Eduardo Año./Office of the Chief PNP/

(Eagle News)–In these pictures provided by the Office of the Chief of the Philippine National Police, Oscar Albayalde is seen with Interior Secretary Eduardo Año and Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa.

Albayalde on Monday, Oct. 14, said that he was stepping down from the PNP chief post after “careful thought and deliberation” and following what he said was the opportunity to talk to Año over the weekend.

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año is seen speaking with Oscar Albayalde, who on Monday, Oct. 14, announced he had stepped down from the post of PNP chief. Also present in the picture was PNP deputy chief of administration Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa, who was named the PNP officer-in-charge./Office of the Chief PNP/

Albayalde’s move came following allegations he had intervened in the cases filed against 13 policemen behind a 2013 raid in Mexico, Pampanga which the  Criminal Investigation and Detection Group found to have been irregular.

Retired Brigadier General Rudy Lacadin had also accused Albayalde of calling him upon learning he was probing the raid and saying “onti lang naman napunta sa akin diyan.”

Gamboa was appointed as PNP officer-in-charge.