MPD clarifies promotion policy

Police chief inspectors (equivalent to major in the military) due for promotion to superintendents (colonels) at the Manila Police District do not need to be reassigned to the provinces to get promoted, an official said yesterday.

Senior Superintendent Miguel Laurel, chief of the directorial staff of the MPD, addressed the concern of 24 police majors who choose not to be promoted rather than be reassigned to the provinces.

Aside from eligibility, time and grade, schooling and training which are the prerequisites for promotion, the Philippine National Police has added another requirement: the candidate must hold a position included in the table of organization. The MPD’s TO positions are filled up.

“All senior majors will take over as station commanders if a vacancy arises and will assume the posts of police superintendents in the TO position. Thereby these officials need only to wait for the proper time to get their TO position even without being reassigned to the provinces,” Laurel explained.

Laurel said station commanders who lasted two years at their post will be automatically relieved. Station commanders can also be relieved for inefficiency, the discovery of jueteng (an illegal numbers game) in their areas of jurisdiction and two successive bank robberies committed in their areas of responsibility.  – Nestor Etolle