A total of 101 Special Action Force (SAF) members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have completed Urban Counter Revolutionary Warfare Course (UCRWC) – a 5-month training for SAF to make them a more potent force in serving and protecting the citizens.
Police Inspector Seth Mark Dugan Alob, UCRWC director, led the presentation of graduating SAF members to Cotabato Governor Emmylou Mendoza and Supt. Danilo P. Peralta, police provincial director over the weekend at the Amas provincial police office compound.
The graduates who belong to UCRWC Class 74-2013 came from different provinces and were trained on the government’s counter-terrorism program and anti-insurgency campaign for a period of five to six months.
They were trained on Internal Security Operations, Waterborne Rescue, Police Intervention, Barangay Module, Operational Testing and Field Training Exercise, which they took up for four months and test mission held for one month.
Insp. Alob said that SAF must adapt to the changes that are needed by the prevailing times, thus its members are introduced in trainings and upgrading of skills.
“The course was designed to give the troopers combat capability in both rural and urban areas in response to calls for help in time of emergencies and crisis,” Alob also said.
Peralta said the new Commando Course aims not only to provide skills to SAF members but virtue as well, by developing their character through the fostering of discipline, righteousness, and respect.
Chief Supt. Noli Galsim Taliño, deputy director of the Special Action Force, responsible for the development and execution of the program of UCRWC, made the declaration of graduates during the graduation ceremony.
C/Supt. Taliño was a member of the PNP Contingent to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) in 1992 to 1993 and received the UN Peacekeeping Medal. He was also honored with the Presidential Merit Medal in 1998.
After being declared as UCRWC graduates, the SAF members were given the Authority to Wear Sure Shock Badge.
Gov. Mendoza again did the honors of the ceremonial pinning to the graduates with PCSUPT Taliño.
Gov. Mendoza said she cannot miss to be with the SAF UCRWC Class 74-2013 in their graduation.
She said there was a distressing incident in President Roxas early dawn where a large number of suspected New People’s Army (NPA) attack the town’s police station and that the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management is conducting a summit for three days but she knew the importance of the occasion.
“The PNP SAF is a strong partner of the provincial government in maintaining peace and order and in the attainment of development. We have common goals and in the process we face the same obstacles and it is imperative for us to be partners along the way,”
She further said that age may already has caught up with many uniformed men in the province including SAF but their commitment to serve and protect the constituents remain burning in their hearts.
“The SAF, along with other uniformed men are our front liners in keeping the peaceful condition of our province,” she said, adding that adding that SAF and the authorities always uphold the supremacy of civilians.
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