NCRPO welcomes 351 new officers

The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) welcomed into its ranks yesterday 351 graduates of the Police Basic Recruit Course.

Metro police chief Director Vidal Querol said the fresh graduates, belonging to Lingkod Bayan Class 2005, would augment police visibility and nightwatch operations in Metro Manila.

Superintendent Danilo Morales, commandant of the NCRPO training school, declared the recruits as graduates during simple ceremonies at the Camp Bagong Diwa parade grounds attended by their relatives and ranking police officials.

The graduates completed six-months, or an equivalent of 960 hours, of hard and rigid training, Morales said.

Querol, the keynote speaker of the event, congratulated the graduates and their families.

"The basic training that you have just completed officially makes all of you professional public safety and law enforcement officers," he said. "The knowledge and skill that you acquired from basic training will save lives, including your own."

He emphasized that rank, uniform, badge and firearms are symbols of police authority that the graduates must uphold, protect and keep clean at all times in order to command respect as officers of the law. "You are presumed to be the first persons to uphold, and not violate it."