Duterte wants major reorganization in PNP: ‘I will abolish SPO1, SPO2’

From Update.Ph (Jan 30): Duterte wants major reorganization in PNP: ‘I will abolish SPO1, SPO2’

In conjunction with the cleansing of PNP ranks, President Rodrigo Duterte said he would asked Congress to revisit the Philippine National Police law to simplify the police titles and units.

“I will abolish SPO1, SPO2. I will ask the House Speaker, senators and congressmen to return to like police patrolman or police major. I will also revive narcotics command, theft and robbery or homicide divisions,” the President said.

 

He explained the creation of a PNP anti-narcotics command, in partnership with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), will lead to the abolition of the different local police anti-drug units.

The President also said a PNP oversight committee will be created to look into the policemen who have been dismissed but fixed their way back to duty.

“There shall be special unit who will keep track of the police who have been removed from services because of wrongdoing. Many of them have arrest warrants for kidnapping,” he said.

The President Duterte likened the police scalawags and criminals to drug lords who continued to destroy the country and the future of many Filipinos.

http://www.update.ph/2017/01/duterte-wants-major-reorganization-in-pnp-i-will-abolish-spo1-spo2/13707