Public Service Record:
- Elected Mayor 2007 - present
- Senator 2004 - 2007
- Department of Interior Local Government Secretary 1998 - 2000
- Re-elected Mayor of Manila, May 8, 1995 with the highest maority in the history of Manila politics
- Appointed Director of the National Bureau of Investigation, Dec. 22, 1989
- Retired Police Major General, December 21, 1989

Education:
- Doctorate on Criminology - Philippine College of Criminology (1996)
- Doctorate on Public Administration, Honoris Cause, PLM 1996
- Doctorate on Public Administration, Honoris Cause, FEU 1995
- National Defense College of the Philippines - Master In National Security Administration (1981) graduated with Honors
- University of the East - Bachelor of Laws (1963)
- University of the East - Bachelor of Business Administration (1951)
- Far Eastern University - High School (1948)
- P. Gomez Elementary School (1943)

Police Service Trainings / Seminars Attended:
- November 1991 - 60th Interpool Gen. Assembly Meeting, Montevido Uruguay
- Feb 24 - Mar 1, 1991 - 59th Asian Regional Conference of Interpool Canberra, Australia
- Sept 27 - Oct 3, 1990 - 59th Interpool Gen. Assembly Meeting, Ottawa Canada
- Nov 27 - Dec 1, 1989 - Interpool Conference Lyon, France
- Oct 4 - 13, 1986 - Interpool Conference Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- October 1984 - Aseana Pool Malaysia
- June 12 - 24, 1983 - Hostage Negotiation Seminar (FBI National Academy Quantico, Virginia, USA)
- December 1 - 7, 1980 - Field Study on Political Economic and Military Problem of Japan Sponsored by NDCP Tokyo, Japan & Study on the Treatment of Criminal Offenders Sponsored by the United Nations, Hongkong.

Special Courses:
A. Annual Active Duty Training as Reserve Officer/AFP
B. Supervisor Management
C. Crowd Control and Physical Security
D. Special Security Officer Course

Civil / Police Service Eligibilities:
Member, Philippine Bar (RA 1080)
Patrolman (Entrance)
Police Sergeant (Promotional)
Supervisor 1st Grade
Police Lieutenant Colonel

Mayor Lim: Consistent Crime Fighter

 The City of Manila’s Mayor Alfredo Lim made our day again. He has once more shown how consistent and admirable an enemy of crime he is.

The Filipino “Dirty Harry” vowed last Monday not to lift a finger to help his son, Manuel, who was arrested in a drug bust. He said “Manuel should be man enough to face the music. I will not protect him. I will not lift a finger to help him. Whatever trouble he has got himself into he must bear by himself.” Manuel is a 44 year old man. He had been arrested with two other suspects for allegedly trying to sell methamphetamine –also known as shabu, which is the most popular illegal drug in the country. They did not know that their sale was a sting. Their buyer was an undercover agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. Police have filed charges against the young Lim and his companions. If convicted, Manuel could face a long prison term for selling shabu.

A model LGU Official

 We have always admired Mayor Lim for being a staunch anti-crime crusader. He cleaned Manila’s red-light districts of prostitutes and drug dealers in his previous (pre-Lito Atienza) terms as mayor of the Philippine capital. He is a model for other local government officials. Not too many Filipinos liked his use of the spray-paint in one of his anti-drug campaigns. What he did was spray-paint warnings on the houses of suspected drug pushers. This was criticized by activists as a violation of the house-owners human rights. Besides, they reasoned, some of the residents in the spray-painted houses- the wives and children and parents of the actual drug pusher- were most likely innocent. What if some crazed anti-drug crusader threw a grenade at the house?

Mayor Lim relented and stopped his unusual campaign. But it was effective. Many of Manila’s drug pushers moved to other places- especially Pasay and the Baclaran area. We need more public officials with Mayor Lim’s honesty and consistency as a crime fighter. It must have been painful for him to make the decision to let the law take its course in the case of his flesh and blood Manuel. Mayor Lim’s posture runs counter to the feudalistic and overly-personalistic mentality of the Filipinos. That mentality is often the source of corruption in this country.

A less strong- willed and honest power holder than Mayor Lim would have surely sprung Manuel out. The mayor could have easily managed such an operation. He is after all a former chief of the national police and a former senator. But it would have sullied his integrity. If President Arroyo had been as firm a crime and corruption fighter as Mayor Lim, she would not have to suffer for the alleged corruption of her underlings- and perhaps some close friends and political creditors- whose wrong doings are being exposed in Senate investigations.

Many people of goodwill are not joining the anti-Arroyo forces rallies and trying to organize the public into forming a massive movement that will force her out of office. Among these are the Catholic bishops and the impressive body of former senior government officials (FSGO). These two groups have made sharp assessments of government corruption. They see the President as- at least- negligent in curbing corruption that has cost this country scores of billions. The FSGO says she must be central in these alleged corrupt deals.

Yet they do not want to add their voices to the call for her resignation or ouster by people power. They want her to continue being president until her term ends in 2010. But they do not insist that she must zealously go after her administration’s monsters of corruption. We hope the President heeds the CBCP and the FSGO. Doing so can’t possibly be as painful as Mayor Lim’s resolve not to lift a finger to help his son out of the mess he has put himself in.