Police to teach students in insurgency affected areas in Luzon

Miami
May 27, 2008
Story: Police to teach students in insurgency affected areas in Luzon

Police assigned in insurgency affected areas will teach elementary students subjects like Filipino, English, Science , Makabayan (history) and mathematics.

Director of Police Community Relations Director General Leopoldo Bataoil dubbed the project as “Pulis ko Titser ko” (My Police, My teacher).

Bataoil said that those areas affected by encounter and/or insurgency between NPA and soldiers are not usually being reached by teachers in able to teach students on that areas.

“So what we did, it is the police now will teach the students at the area,” Bataoil said.

The project has been properly coordinated with the Department of Education (DepEd) to allow policemen to teach the elementary students at the area.

Bataoil also said that some policemen are not doing anything, “Instead of waiting for nothing, our policemen will teach at the area so that there will be no time will be wasted.”

He also said that with this set-up, their work as policemen will not be affected as long as proper coordination with the station commander and teaching policemen will be solve.

As of this moment, two policemen in each Regions 1, 2, 3, 4A, 4B and Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), all from Luzon, will be deploy this June and start the classes their. Bataoil is hoping that there were many policemen will follow suit in order to help more students. He also said that Visayas and Mindanao will follow soon.

He also said that the policemen who will teach the students are college graduate of Bachelor of Science in Education major in Elementary education. “they were teachers first before becoming policemen and now they will use their teaching skills in helping our people.”

Ofelia Estaquio, representative of DepEd, already gave a refresher course to the policemen to refresh their minds on teaching. “They just need to refresh their minds on methods of teaching and how to deal with students. But basically they know that already because they studied that when they were still students then,” Estaquio said.

If this will be successful, Bataoil hopes that this will also be practice in some provinces even if it is not affected by insurgency.