Gov. Joey Sarte Salceda says: LOCAL CONTROL WILL REVERSE POLICE DYSFUNCTION It takes a village to sustain the police as a positive force for development The surge in police criminality should compel us to seriously revisit the logic for a national police force trumping local / community control over the police- this was largely on account of the martial law phobia ruling the mindset of the 1986 Concom and the 1987 Congress. Currently, hiring, firing, training and promotions are all national processes. Towns and cities have limited day-to-day operating supervision while governors impinge on police management in our territory only upon the need to pick among the choices for PD brought down from Crame. Nevertheless, under our own initiative called Team Albay, we have managed to optimise and mobilise the institution, the capacities and resources of PNP Provl Office and seamlessly fuse them in our strategic interventions as in the 11 major humanitarian missions, preemptive evacuation, tree planting, coastal clean ups, actions for climate mitigation and activities for climate change adaptation, security arrangements for the Albay International Gateway as well as UNWTO and APEC. Even without express national blessing, the conscious local exertion and intellectual leadership together with the doctrinal approaches of the local provincial police resulted in the optimisation of police resources and the consequent enhancement of its institutional capacities and the constant open engagements of police forces with local communities, esp. the vulnerable and the organised citizenry. I believe if expanded, local control over the police would significantly curtail and reverse the current uptrend in police criminality.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:34:17 +0000
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