Reynaldo Wycoco
Reynaldo G. Wycoco was a Filipino retired police officer who formerly served as Director of the National Bureau of Investigation.
Career
Police service
Hails from Cabiao and graduate of class 1968 in the Philippine Military Academy, Wycoco served in the Philippine Constabulary as member of Ranger Battalion in 1969, where he was assigned as the Battalion Intelligence and Operations Officer in Tarlac. This is the time where Central Luzon was a center of communist armed insurgency.In 1980, still at service, he obtained his Master's degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also take short graduate courses at the London School of Economics, as he believes that "if you don’t innovate, you’ll stagnate" and for the improving of police work, especially with cooperating with the community. He also studied in the US Army Intelligence Center in Arizona and in the intriguingly named Political Warfare and Allied Intelligence School in Taiwan, as he think that learning of right collection and handling of information, can be a crucial change for a country.
When the PC became the Philippine National Police, he became a police officer specializing in intelligence. Later, Wycoco served as chief of the National Capital Region Police Office in 1998 until 1999. He also served as spokesperson of the PNP, and retired with the rank of now called Police Lieutenant General while serving as deputy chief for administration in 2001.