NAPOLCOM approves the hiring of 17,314 new police officers
NAPOLCOM approves the hiring of 17,314 new police officers
The National
Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) has approved the recruitment of 17,314 patrolmen
and patrolwomen to supplement personnel losses, raise personnel strength, boost
police visibility, and improve the police-to-population ratio and the state of
peace and order in the operational regions covered by the respective Police
Regional Offices (PROs) and National Support Units (NSUs).
The NAPOLCOM En
Banc, led by Secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG) and NAPOLCOM Chairman Eduardo M. Año, issued Resolution No. 2021-0475 on
April 27, 2021, authorizing the Philippine National Police’s CY 2021 Regular
and Attrition Recruitment Program (PNP).
The 1,000
regular recruitment quota will be granted to the National Capital Region Police
Office (NCRPO) in the first recruitment cycle, according to NAPOLCOM Vice
Chairman and Executive Officer Vitaliano N. Aguirre II, to increase the
region’s police-to-population ratio, mitigate personnel losses related to the
localization program, and meet the Office’s personnel requirements.
“The 16,314
attrition recruitment quota, on the other hand, is intended to replace
uniformed personnel losses due to separation from the service (retirement,
designation, death, dismissal from the service, absence without leave),” Aguirre said.
The attrition
recruitment quota for the PROs for the 1st and 2nd cycles shall be distributed,
as follows:
For the NSUs,
following is the allotment of the attrition recruitment quota for the 1st and
2nd cycles:
Vice Chairman
Aguirre said that Chiefs of PNP Offices/Units and members of the Screening and
Selection Committee, including the head and members of the Secretariat, are
required to strictly follow the existing rules and regulations on the
recruitment, selection and appointment of Patrolman and Patrolwoman as well as
the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Omnibus
Guidelines in the Implementation of Community Quarantine in the Philippines;
otherwise, they would be subjected to administrative sanctions.
Source: NAPOLCOM