Catalino Cuy

Catalino "Lito" Salandanan Cuy (born November 25, 1957) is a Filipino retired police director and who served as chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board under the Duterte administration and Marcos administration from 2018 to 2025. He assumed the role of Officer-in-Charge of the Department of Interior and Local Government on April 5, 2017, upon the departure of Ismael Sueno who was dismissed by President Duterte following corruption allegations.

Education Cuy completed three years of studying Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Mapúa Institute of Technology in Manila in 1977. The following year, he moved to Baguio to study at the Philippine Military Academy where he graduated as part of the Dimalupig Class of 1981. Cuy also received a master's degree in Public Administration from the Manuel L. Quezon University in 1994. In 2005, he was appointed as the Director of the Davao City Police Office under then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. As Davao police chief, he, along with 20 other police officers, was charged with negligence in 2012 and fined an equivalent of a month's salary by the Office of the Ombudsman for failing to control the summary killings by the alleged Davao death squads between 2005 and 2008. Following his stint in Mindanao, he became the Deputy Director for Personnel and Records Management in 2009.

In 2010, Cuy was appointed as Commander of the PNP Special Action Force. Upon retirement from the PNP, Cuy joined the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte as DILG Undersecretary in July 2016, and as officer-in-charge of the department in April 2017.