Castro questions detail of other prosecutors

CEBU, Philippines - Assistant City Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro wants the Civil Service Commision to revoke the designation of prosecutors whose stay in their temporary assignment has gone beyond one year.

In a letter to the CSC, Castro said that based on Memorandum Circular No. 21 Series of 2002, the “duration of detail is a maximum period of one year and the detail without consent of the employee the maximum is six months.”

“By its very definition, detail is a temporary movement of an employee from one department or agency to another,” letter reads.

Castro is back at the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office after her detail at the Talisay City Prosecutor’s Office has lapsed.

She wants the policy applied to other prosecutors.

She named the prosecutors who have been staying in their detailed assignment for more than a year.

Some of them are Prosecutor Van Inopiquez (detailed from Dumaguete City to Cebu City); Prosecutors Jen Alo, Benjo Macion and Hyacinth Jadraque (detailed from Talisay City to Cebu City), Prosecutor Raul Cristoria (detailed from the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office to the Office of the Regional Prosecution (ORP) and Prosecutor Llena Ipong-Avila (detailed from ORP to Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office).

“If these RSP designees are allowed despite the limitation in the CSC law, why single me out considering we are similarly situated,” she said.

Castro also asked CSC to issue an order to her mother unit, the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office through City Prosecutor Nicolas Sellon, that she be allowed to perform her duties and functions. – (FREEMAN)