1,000 new policemen to be deploy in critical areas in Mindano, deployment for police auxiliaries stopped

Miami
September 5, 2008
Story: 1,000 new policemen to be deploy in critical areas in Mindano, deployment for police auxiliaries stopped

The Philippine National Police (PNP) is set to deploy 1,000 policemen tin the critical areas in Mindanao like in Cotabato, Lanao del Norte and Maguindanao.

PNP Spokesman Chief Supt. Nicanor Bartolome said that there are newly recruits policemen, about 1,000 of them that will have to go filed training, “instead of training them into other field areas, these 1,000 new recruits will be deployed already to the critical areas in Mindanao for field training and be able to help in the operations there.”

Bartolome also added that these 1,000 policemen were recruited 6 months ago and already undergone theoretical training for 6 months which includes on how to investigate, how to use guns, how to handle incident situations.

“They will be competent already in handling situations, nothing to worry about if they will be sent their,” Bartolome said.

The PNP spokesman repeats the call of the government for the civilian volunteer organization (CVO)on not to arm themselves and let the PNP and AFP do the work in protecting them and in the operations being done against MILF in Mindanao.

Meanwhile, deployment for the police auxiliaries will be stopped for a while as the PNP and local government unit will have to select among all applicants and train them first before being deployed on their barangays.

The police auxiliaries are civilians that will have to ensure the peace on their own barangays. Police auxiliaries will only be limited to their own barangays as well, they cannot go to other barangay to perform their duty as police auxiliaries.