City police opens refresher course
The Cebu City Police Police Office yesterday started its eight-day policemen refresher course designed to prevent or minimize casualties during police operations.
The training is CCPO’s answer to the directive of Police Regional Office–7 director Chief Supt. Ronald Roderos following the death of several policemen in
The police intervention refresher course is a crisis response seminar conducted by the elite Special Weapons and Tactics team.
Superintendent Pablo Labra, deputy director for administration of the CCPO, told reporters that the training will help those who are not yet trained and for those who are already forgetting the basics of police intervention techniques in dealing with criminals.
Labra said the policemen, in the course, will tackle quick reaction drills, building clearing, vehicle takedown, initiative, basic tactics, and other techniques necessary to protect themselves and innocent people against criminals.
Banzon, for his part, added that these seminars will minimize the chances of casualties in the police force during encounters with criminals.
After SPO1 Pedro Sucion was killed and his partner PO2 Darius Conejos was wounded while they responded to a robbery alarm at the reclamation area in Mandaue City last January 6, Roderos ordered his men to conduct training to prevent a similar incident.
He said it was time for the police force to undergo refresher courses for police intervention especially because it was not the first time during his term as regional director that a policeman was killed during a police operation.
Last December, PO1 Noriel Luage of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Branch was with the team of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group serving a search warrant when he was shot dead by suspect Ramon Jaime Baclohan.
Luage entered the service in 2006. He was not yet a seasoned policeman then and, despite being with the CIIB always during raids and serving arrest warrants, there were perceptions that he might lacked some skills needed in police operations.
Police recruits undergo Basic Police Training for six months, then another 45 days of PNP Scout Training before being assigned to an urban police unit. The lessons learned from these schools, however, comprised only 50 percent of what is actually needed to be an effective police officer in the field, said Banzon.
Banzon said the remaining 50 percent is learned only from the unit they are assigned to, and this means that they must be taught various police intervention techniques, proper way of doing searches in buildings and suspects for hidden weapons and familiarization with their weapons and equipment.
The trainees are also taught the “quick peep” techniques before entering buildings and rooms during searches and how to use their weapons using their left or the right hand.
“Kung ma-train lang ang atong mga polis ani, at least gamay ra ang chance nga madisgrasya sila,” Banzon said. — Edwin Ian Melecio/RAE
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