“We are the only police agency in the whole world that doesn’t handle the training. Police force who does not train its own policemen. So, it’s very ironic. I don’t see the logic.”
Philippine National Police Chief, Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa expresses his desire to assume control over the training of new police recruits as the PNP is alarmed over the increasing number of police non-commissioned officer involved in illegal drugs.
Records of the PNP Internal Affairs Service shows 81 drug cases that involve police officers 1, 42 cases involve police officers 2, and 48 cases involve police officers 3.
“PO1 are the ones who are out in the streets. They have more frequent contact on the elements there even the good citizen and the bad citizen. And they are there,” said Deputy Inspector General of Internal Affairs Services, P/CSupt. Leo Angelo Leuterio.
The police believes taking charge of the recruits’ training is the solution to the problem.
“For you to have a best a medical practitioners, it should be the doctors who will train them,” PNP Training Service acting director, P/CSupt. John Sosito said.
“So, in PNP, we also want to handle, to take charge the training of our personnel so that we will assumed responsibilities of skills enhancement, intellectual development and moral transformation,” he added.
At present, the National Police Training Institute (NPTI) of Police Public Safety College (PPSC) handles the training of police recruits.
According to the institute, the last 6 months of the recruits’ 1-year training are spent on a field exercise which is managed by the PNP.
“We have what we called the FTX or field training exercise. That is the last six months. ‘Cause their entire training for PO1 is 1 year. The last six months are handled by the training service. So, what the National Police Training Institute gives is just the academics,” saidNPTI Director, retired Police Chief Superintendent Jose Erwin Villacorte.
PNP continuosly exerts efforts to discipline and clear the minds of some personnel who seem tempted with the huge amount of money involved in illegal drugs. — Lea Ylagan | UNTV News & Rescue
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