By NITZ ARANCON, Correspondent NATIONAL Police Director General Ronald dela Rosa has relieved Senior Supt. Ronnie Francis  Cariaga from his duties as the city’s police chief effective tomorrow. Cariaga would be replaced by Senior Supt. Gerardo Rosales on orders of police director for northern Mindanao Chief Supt. Agripino Javier. Cariaga has been assigned to the the southwestern Tagalog region or Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan). Rosales would serve as city police director in a temporary capacity. It would be his second time to sit as the city’s police chief. Chief Insp. Mardy Hortilloza, spokesperson of the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office, confirmed that it was dela Rosa himself who relieved Cariaga in an order dated Feb. 11. It takes effect tomorrow, Feb. 15. Based on dela Rosa’s order, Cariaga would serve as police director of one of the cities in Region 4b, according to Hortilloza. Hortilloza said Rosales would serve as acting police director pending the submission of a list of five police officials to Mayor Oscar Moreno by Camp Alagar. He said Chief Supt. Javier has yet to choose five candidates for the position of city police director. Based on the rules, whoever is chosen by the mayor would be the next police director. Hortilloza said there would be no formal command turnover rites because Rosales would only serve as temporary police chief. Cariaga, who became the city’s police director in August last year, was given a despedida party by his subordinates at Cocpo yesterday. Meanwhile, Mayor Moreno told a crowd at Camp Alagar yesterday that there was a need to make the military and the police work together in the maintenance of peace and order. Speaking during the celebration of the National Police’s foundation celebration at Camp Alagar, said members of Congress should seriously consider the proposal. “I hope that there will be more defined and more meaningful engagement  or collaboration between  the police and the military,” he said. Moreno said the country’s population has increased and the police could no longer cope with it, hence the need for the military to help in the peace and order campaign of the government. “The population of cities now captured more than 50 percent of the nation’s population... And in the next 20 years, two-thirds of the population of the country will be living in the cities,” Moreno said. He said the national government could not afford to hire more police officers, and so, soldiers could beef up the police forces and increase the visibility of law enforcement groups in the streets.