Transforming the PNP

We fully support the PNP Integrated Transformation Program headed by PDDGen Jesus Versoza which is now gaining headway in the implementation of its impact programs. The program was designed to place on track organic dysfunctions in order to improve the delivery of police services to the community through upgraded law enforcement capabilities. Parallel to all these, the welfare and morale of the organization's personnel, including their dependents, were likewise given importance. The Program Management Office was tasked to oversee activities towards transformation and to monitor every phase of their implementation.

Studies were carefully laid down, drafted and re-drafted and then finalized(more are still on the drawing board), beginning from the very basic and going up the heirarchial needs of the PNP personnel, including the organization's functional needs.

One study showed that more than 80 percent of the 1,603 police stations, or 1,282, are considered "Squatting" either on privately-owned or government-owned properties.

Another study showed that shortage in land patrol vehicles (at 65 percent as of presstime) almost equalled the shortage of decent shelter for PNP personnel (at 63.16 percent), the latter, confirming the National Economic and Development Authority's report that 60 percent of the PNP personnel live below the poverty line.

And so forth and so on, from a long list of priority needs, each item check-listed by concerned entities. And since transforming the PNP is everybody's call, each of the organization's personnel must give his or her share of responsibility, no matter how small this may be. And they have to believe with all their hearts that as vital parts of something bigger than themselves, what they contribute today will definitely be part of a better tomorrow...