Lawmakers want police academies put under PNP control

The Philippine National Police should take over the country's police academies to make sure its officers have the proper training and values, lawmakers who want administration transferred from the Philippine Public Safety College said.
 

Senator Jinggoy Estrada and Pangasinan Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil — a former PNP director — have both filed bills to give the national police control over the PNP Academy, the Philippine National Training Institute, and the National Police College.

 

Sr. Supt. Reuben Theodore Sindac, PNP spokesman, said that in a report on "State of the Nation with Jessica Soho aired Monday night, that by doing so, "the right culture and inspiration can be embedded in the minds and morals of all students and trainees."
 

He added the PNP sometimes has to retrain and reorient police academy graduates for up to six months because "the new policemen on the beat did not even know what to do throughout the day."

 

PPSC President Ricardo De Leon admits there have been shortcomings but said that the college is taking steps to remedy them.

 

He added it is unfair to blame the PPSC for police officers who end up committing crimes on the school.

 

"May mga scalawag e. Parang, ito nag-commit, aba, kasalanan ba ng university kung saan ka gumradweyt?" he said.

 

A photo of the alleged abduction of the passengers of an SUV on EDSA went viral earlier this month. It was later found that the men seen in the photo were either former policemen or still on active duty and were allegedly part of an extortion plot.

Some of the police officers allegedly involved are alumni of the PNPA. — JDS, GMA News