Training at values formation sa kapulisan

NAGPAHAYAG ng pagkaalarma si Senator Jinggoy Ejer­cito Estrada sa mga ulat na ilang pulis umano ang nasasangkot sa krimen.

Kaugnay nito ay iginiit niya ang agarang pagpapatibay sa kanyang iniakdang Senate Bill 131 (Transferring the administrative supervision and operational control of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA), Police National Training Institute (PNTI) and the National Police College (NPC) from the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) to the Philippine National Police (PNP).”

Sa ilalim ng Republic Act 6975 (Department of the Interior and Local Government Act), ang PNPA ay pinanga-ngasiwaan ng PPSC, na isang “institution outside the PNP.”

Ayon kay Jinggoy, “The cases of policemen-cum-criminals and the pervasive belief of escalating crimina-lity and disorder could be symptoms of an ineffective police academy setup. As the PNP already acknowledged, they are now looking into better training and values formation programs. Taking this a step further, we should ask whether the system of existing learning institutions tasked to produce an army of skilled and honorable law enforcers is delivering what is expected of them or if the setup is faulty and defective.”

Dagdag niya, “The current setup has proven to be ineffective and costly. It allows lapses in coordination of training programs and makes it difficult to develop a system of plan and budget for trainings internal to PNP. There is also a mismatch between the PNP training expectations and requirements and the actual services provided by PPSC. The ineffectiveness and inefficiency in the structure and system frequently result in unnecessary cost and waste of resources and efforts because the PNP would oftentimes conduct its own re-orientation and specialization training programs, thus duplicating or most often augmenting, those already undertaken by PPSC.”

Suportado ng pamunuan ng PNP ang panukala ni Jinggoy. Ayon kay dating PNP Chief Nicanor Bartolome, “Law students are trained by lawyers, medical students are trained by doctors, and seminarians are trained by priests. However, PNP personnel are trained by civilians on the aspects of police discipline, basic police tactics, customs of the service and field exercises.”