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Provincial Prosecutor Agapito B. Rosales |
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He works quietly but efficiently and effectively unlike some government officials holding sensitive positions.
The present Camarines Sur Provincial Prosecutor has a colorful professional career record spanning 32 years, curiously in seven government offices, a feat that can hardly be duplicated.
Before his appointment as Provincial Prosecutor of Camarines Sur on July 19, 1999, he was a director in the Factfinding Intelligence Bureau of the Office of the Ombudsman, but earlier immediately after the EDSA Revolution in 1986 he served as Regional Director of the Department of Interior Local Government (DILG) in the Bicol Region until 1989.
His first job after passing the bar examination in 1973 was an investigator in the Office of the Governor of Camarines Sur, then under the late Gov. Felix Alfelor, Sr. In 1975 he was promoted to Assistant Provincial Attorney in the provincial government of Camarines Sur but the young lawyer wanted a more exciting job and opted to join the NBI later during the same year. The job took him as far as Palawan. But finding not enough challenge in his assignment he sought in 1979 to become Investigator at the Tanodbayan in Manila.
Today, only few years before his retirement he still hopes to rise in the ladder of the Department of Justice; he was actually close to moving up only a few months back if not for some unforeseen circumstances. But despite the setback he is not settling for another stint in another branch of the government satisfied as he is that he is performing his job very well and has been earning commendations from peers and law practitioners.
Through the years he has earned a reputation for strict adherence to the law and ethical standards, working quietly and effectively without so much fanfare unlike some government officials holding sensitive positions.
Provincial Prosecutor Rosales was born on May 31, 1945 in Ocampo, Camarines Sur to the late Agaton Rosales and Crispina Barbajera. He is married to Avelina Capistrano-Rosales, a businesswoman with whom he has five children: Arvin, 29; Aldwin, 28, both commerce graduates; Avalyn, 26, a pharmacist now working in the United States; Archie, 24; and Aimee, 22, a practicing lawyer in Manila.
He finished his elementary at the Ocampo Central School but completed his high school, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws all at the University of Nueva Caceres.
Will he enter politics after he retires from government service?
The soft-spoken but hardened lawyer winked an eye and quipped: Why not?
