Camp general tomas karingal biography
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Tomas Karingal
Filipino retired military officre and former police general (1915–1984)
In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Boniceli and the surname or paternal family name is Karingal.
Tomas Boniceli Karingal (December 30, 1915 – May 24, 1984) was a Filipino soldier, war hero and police general who became one of the leading commanders of the Philippine Constabulary (PC) in Metro Manila and Chief of the Quezon City Police Department during the martial law regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. He was assassinated in 1984 by the Alex Boncayao Brigade, then the urban-assassination unit of the communist New People's Army.
Early life and career
[edit]Karingal was born on December 30, 1915 in Pasacao, Camarines Sur.[1] In 1933, he joined the Philippine Constabulary as a regular patrolman. When the Philippine Military Academy was established in Baguio in 1936, Karingal signed up to become part of its pioneer batch but flunk
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At the border of Teachers Village, Sikatuna Village and Barangay Botocan, the Philippine National Police (PNP) Camp Karingal. The police camp is the headquarters of the Quezon City Police District, which was previously known as the nordlig Police District (NPD) of the then PC-INP (Philippine Constabulary-Integrated National Police). Before the camp was constructed in 1974, the area was the location of a police precinct of the Philippine Constabulary’s Philippine Constabulary storstads- Command (MetroCom). Before the construction of Camp Karingal, the NPD headquarters was part of the PC-INP’s Camp Rafael Cramé, along Epifanio dem los Santos Avenue(EDSA for short).
The camp is named after Brigadier General Tomas Bingo Karingal (1915-1984), the longest serving chief of the nordlig Police District. Karingal was first noted as a Philippine Army lieutenant during World War II (1939-1945), as a member of the USAFFE (United States Army Forces in the Far East) Count