The Philippine National Police celebrated its 24th anniversary on Monday, highlighted by the giving of awards and recognition to the good performing units of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) for their contributions to the success of the NCRPO undertakings.
“Today, as we celebrate the 24th founding anniversary of the
Philippine National Police, we will also honor another milestone in the history
of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO). Looking back at exactly
eight months before, on June 16, 2014, we started to initiate new strategies
with the aim of tilting the balance of the growing adverse public perception
about rising criminality in the National Capital Region (NCR),” Deputy Regional
Director for Operations Police Chief Supt. Allen Bantolo told the PNP officers
and men gathered at the NCRPO Headquarters in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City.
Bantolo noted the significant improvement in the anti-crime
campaign with the launching of the "Oplan Lambat Sibat," which is a
multi-dimensional approach in addressing criminality in urban setting.
He also cited the PNP's integrated patrol system, management
tools for field commanders and the manageable operational results as their
accomplishments against criminality in the past year.
“As we reinvigorated our anti-criminality campaign, or the
Oplan Lambat Sibat, we have all witnessed the remarkable and significant
improvement in the NCR crime situation,” he said.
"Oplan Lambat," as implied by its name, was
designed to function as a net for petty criminals. Each strand represents a
smaller police operation such as increased checkpoints, mobile and beat
patrols, intensified serving of arrest warrants, and customized police
deployment and operations in densely populated areas, including malls, MRT and
LRT stations, and other transport terminals.
On the other hand, "Oplan Sibat" was designed as a
unified intelligent target operations of the PNP, using combined intelligence
resources of various operating units.
“Our Oplan Lambat Sibat has been able to yield tangible
results by organizing our weekly crime trend and reducing the number by 50
percent from its comparative baseline period from Dec. 21, 2013 to June 15,
2014. In eight months, we have learned to embrace the doctrine of the whole of
PNP approach. We have truly appreciated the essence of impact of deliberate,
systematic and programmatic development of policy,” he explained.
During the celebration, Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG) Secretary Manuel A. Roxas II, as the guest of honor and
speaker, honored the fallen 44 Special Action Force (SAF) heroes on behalf of a
grateful nation.
”Their lives and memories are forever etched in our minds
and hearts for the ultimate sacrifice that they gave for our people and our
nation. We cannot deny their nobility, their courage, and their sacrifices
which led to the death of Marwan. They did their job, to the ultimate. We honor
them every day by likewise doing our work, professionally, competently and
responsibly. The mandate of the police is very simple: to serve and to protect,”
Roxas said.
He also proudly cited how the PNP, through the National
Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), served and protected the citizens of the
NCR in the last seven months.
“From more than a thousand incidents a week of theft,
robbery, carnapping and motorcycle-napping, it has been reduced through the
NCRPO command and PNP to 436 last week, 522 in the week before that, 577 the
week prior to that, and 563 in the week prior to that. For four weeks, the
number has stayed within the 500 level and recently reduced to 436. These are
due to your efforts,” Roxas told the officers and men.
Roxas noted that it was hard to achieve that number, but
week after week, they have learned from their mistakes of the preceding week
and they have strengthened and fortified their efforts.
According to the DILG secretary, the Northern Police
District (NPD) covering the cities of Caloocan
The Eastern Police District (EPD) encompassing the cities of
Makati , Mandaluyong, Makati ,
Pasig and San
Juan
In the same vein, and Manila Police District, reduced the
number of its unsolved cases from 220 cases to 97.
In the Southern Police District (SPD) covering Las Pinas,
Muntinlupa, Pasay , Paranaque
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD), which previously had
270 recorded cases, halved this number to 141.
Taking the above statistics into account, Roxas concluded
that NCR is much safer this year compared to 2014 as a result of the
perseverance, dedication, professionalism and service of the police officers.
”All of you who wear the uniform, take an oath. All of you
who wear a uniform, every day, you know the possible peril you may be involved
in when you wear that uniform. We owe a lot to the men and women in uniform;
all the support, the resources, the effort so that when you do your part, the
rest of the government also does its part. It will not only be an effort of the
whole PNP but it will be a whole government approach so that we may apply the
efforts and achievements in NCR to the whole country,” Roxas said.
”To the men and women of NCRPO, the men and women of the
Philippine National Police nationwide, although we are celebrating our 24th PNP
Foundation Day, it is really over a hundred years since the first constabulary
of police force was set up in our country. Over that century, there have been
ups and downs, good and bad, happiness and sadness. Today, naghahalo ang
lungkot at tuwa. Lungkot sa nangyari sa ating heroes sa Mamasapano; tuwa naman
sa accomplishment ng NCRPO na naipababa sa kalahati ang bilang ng krimen dito
sa NCR (It was mixed emotions. Sad due to the Mamasampano incident; happy
because of the accomplishment of the NCRPO to lessen the crimes),” Roxas said.
Meanwhile, 38 police commanders, commissioned and
non-commissioned officers were given Medalya ng Paglilingkod Laban sa
Kriminalidad sa NCR during the event.
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