Chairman’s Corner
Secretary Catalino Salandanan Cuy is the Chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board. He joined the Administration of President Rodrigo R. Duterte in July 2016 as the Undersecretary for Peace and Order and later on as the Officer-in-Charge of the Department of Interior and Local Government. During the Philippine hosting of ASEAN 2017, he served as the Chairman of the Committee on Security, Peace and Order and Emergency Preparedness.
Prior to his retirement from the PNP, Secretary Cuy served as the Director of the Directorate for Personnel and Records Management (DPRM). He also served as the Director of the Directorate for Human Resource and Doctrine Development (DHRD) of the Philippine National Police.
Among his significant assignments include the PNP Special Action Force (SAF) as Director which he held for 2 years.
Secretary Cuy graduated from the Philippine Military Academy in 1981.
Prior to joining the PMA, he completed 3 years of studying Electrical Engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila. From 1985 to 1990, he served as aide-de-camp to then Lieutenant General Fidel V. Ramos who was the Chief of the Philippine Constabulary. When General Ramos assumed as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Cuy continued to serve as an aide-de-camp, a position he maintained until Ramos became the Secretary of National Defense. Under the Ramos Presidency, he also served in various capacities such as being the Executive Assistant to then Executive Secretary Edelmiro Amante and later as Executive Assistant at the Appointments Office of the Office of the President.
In 1999, he was assigned to the Davao Region where he assumed various positions to include as Chief of the Regional Personnel and Human Resource Doctrine and Development at the PNP Regional Headquarters, as Provincial Director of Davao Oriental Police Office and as Director of Davao City Police Office.
After retirement from the PNP in November 2013, Secretary Cuy was appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Safety Mutual Benefit Fund Inc. (PSMBFI), the insurance provider of the PNP and other Public Safety Agencies.