Newly installed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Deputy Director General Edgardo Aglipay today committed the organization’s full support to the 10-point agenda of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

"To express my gratitude, I commit my daily service to our people to ensure a positive environment for your 10-point program. And I will only be satisfied that I have thanked you enough, when the Filipino people will report to you their actual and sustained testimonies of satisfaction of the services that the Philippine National Police, under my leadership, shall have provided them," Aglipay told the President in his speech at the turnover of command held in Camp Crame in Quezon City.

Aglipay took over the top PNP post from Director General Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. who has been appointed as National Security Adviser.

Aglipay also thanked Interior and Local Government Secretary Angelo Reyes for his "encouragement and very inspiring examples which are all worthy of emulation," as well as Ebdane, his predecessor and former upperclassman at the Philippine Military Academy, "for developing me into what I am today."

The new PNP chief vowed to pursue a policy of leadership by example, adding that discipline and austerity would be the hallmarks of his administration.

Aglipay summarized his leadership thrust by the acronym "CARE" for courtesy, action, results and example.

"Let us take care of our country…let us take care of our people and let us take care of our organization, and our country and our people will take care of us," Aglipay told the policemen.

He enjoined all members of the PNP to show respect and basic courtesy to every citizen, especially the common Filipino.

For action, Aglipay promised to strengthen police visibility as an effective deterrent to crime.

He also expected the PNP to be results-oriented under his watch, and gave all police stations seven days to make an inventory of unsolved cases over the past three years.

Aglipay said he himself would be the example of what a policeman should be, playing the role model for physical, mental, moral and spiritual fitness for the job.