Ricardo F. de Leon[1] is a Filipino retired police officer who is the current director of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency of the Philippines.

De Leon attended the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), graduating from the institution in 1971 as part of the Matatag class.

[4] He would return to the Philippines as a lieutenant colonel, and was kept under floating status for a year until he was appointed as the director in Davao del Norte.

[4] In 2004, de Leon was appointed as commander of the Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force during the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

[6][1] De Leon would be selected by then-President elect Bongbong Marcos as director of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA).