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Commission on Elections. <strong>The</strong> term “operational supervision and control”shall mean the power to direct, superintend, oversee and inspect the policeunits or forces. It shall include the power to employ and deploy units orelements of the PNP, through the station commander, to ensure public safetyand effective maintenance of peace and order, prevention of crimes, arrest ofcriminal offenders and bring the offenders to justice, and ensuring publicsafety and effective maintenance of peace and order within the locality. Forthis purpose, the term “employ” and “deploy” shall mean as follows: “Employ”refers to the utilization of units or elements of the PNP for purposes ofprotection of lives and properties, enforcement of laws, maintenance of peaceand order, prevention of crimes, arrest of criminal offenders and bringing theoffenders to justice, and ensuring public safety, particularly in the suppressionof disorders, riots, lawless violence, rebellious or seditious conspiracy,insurgency, subversion or other related activities. “Deploy” shall mean theorderly and organized physical movement of elements or units of the PNPwithin the province, city or municipality for purposes of employment as hereindefined. <strong>The</strong> mayor shall, in coordination with the local peace and ordercouncil of which he/she is the Chairperson, pursuant to EO 309, as amended,develop and establish an integrated area/community public safety planembracing priorities of action and program thrust for implementation by thelocal PNP stations. It shall likewise sponsor periodic seminars for members ofthe PNP assigned or detailed in the municipality in order to update thoseregarding local ordinances and legislations. In addition, the Mayor shallhave authority to choose the chief of police from a list of five (5) eligiblerecommended by the provincial police director, preferably from the sameprovince, or municipality; to recommend the transfer, reassignment or detailof PNP members outside of their respective municipality residences; torecommend from the list eligible previously screened by the Peace and OrderCouncil, the appointment of new members of the PNP to be assigned to theirrespective cities or municipalities without which no such appointment shall beattested.b. Personal Staff - Provides executive and Mayor in the discharge of his/her officialfunctions and caries out instruction of the Municipal Chief Executive.c. Office of the Municipal Administrator-<strong>The</strong> Municipal Administrator is optionaland the term is coterminous with that of his/her appointing authority. No personshall be appointed as Municipal Administrator unless he/she is a citizen of thePhilippines, a resident of the local government unit concerned, of good moralcharacter, a holder of college degree preferably in public administration, law orany other related course from recognized college or university, and a first gradecivil service eligible or its equivalent. He/She must have acquired experience inmanagement and administration work for at least three (3) years. <strong>The</strong> MunicipalAdministrator shall take charge of the office of the administrator and its officeshall:i. Develop plans and strategies and upon approval thereof by the mayorimplement the same particularly those which have to do with themanagement and administration-related programs and projects which themayor is empowered to implement and which the sanggunian isempowered to provide for under R.A. 7160;176