MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine National Police is seeking to add more police generals in its current administrative line-up as it seeks to reorganize its ranks, Director General Jesus Verzosa said.

Although Verzosa said they could not yet determine how many star-ranking police officials they need, he said the current quota was 90 and they have yet to fill this up.

Star-ranking police officials start from the Chief Superintendent rank and include the Director and Deputy Director General ranks.

"We still have to process a lot of applications for promotions because we still have vacancies in the different ranks," Verzosa told reporters.

The PNP chief also denied that they were promoting undeserved generals, as seven new generals took their oath at Camp Crame.

"The PNP is following the plantilla positions that are approved by the Napolcom (National Police Commission) and also as provided by the existing laws, we also depend on the budget that is allocated towards the plantilla positions now (where) we have not exceeded the quota for the different ranks," he added.

Verzosa said the PNP is planning to reorganize its administrative line-up by removing star-ranking officials from the deputy regional director for administration position, which was the number two highest position in the different regional offices.

Also part of the police reorganizational plan is to remove some offices and combining them with other offices to remove redundancy in police services.