ILOILO CITY, Philippines — The Police Regional Office-6 recently launched e-Blotter, a modernized system in storing data particularly crime incidents.
Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol, Jr., PRO-6 director, said e-Blotter, also known as Crime Incident Reporting System (CIRS), will facilitate crime documentation as well as fast and reliable transmission of crime information from the police stations to the regional offices and even to the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame.
Querol said the scheme is one way of boosting the crime reporting system of the PNP for effective law enforcement. “The e-Blotter system will replace the mano-mano system that is cumbersome, inefficient, ineffective and inaccurate,” he said.
The e-Blotter is a result of PNP’s efforts over the years to achieve enhanced crime reporting system in the country for effective law enforcement, public safety and effective administration of criminal justice.
The project was first implemented in the National Capital Region Police Office in September last year and was replicated by other police regional offices ready with the equipment.
The PNP earlier said e-Blotter has been designed as a stand-alone system that will be installed in all police stations as means of reporting and monitoring all crime incidents within their respective areas, as well as results and records of investigation.
Querol said the implementation of the system cost the government nothing because the software was developed by programmers of the PNP themselves, and only police stations were allowed to install it.
In Region 6, a total of 65 crime registrars underwent a one-day training on the e-Blotter System, which will continue for all other registrars in the region. (FREEMAN)