Three graduating cadets of the Philippine National Police (PNP) just wanted to have fun on New Year’s eve—but one of them ended up being subjected to summary dismissal proceedings for allegedly beating up his classmate.
Cadet 1st Class Joab Mar Nacnas warned his three classmates about using liquor inside the PNPA premises after he caught them engaged in a drinking session at the roofdeck of one of the buildings.
The confrontation led to a heated argument and ended with Nacnas being beaten up by Cadet 1st Class Denvert Dulansi.
Gen. Debold Sinas, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said that he had already ordered the start of the dismissal proceedings against Dulansi and at the same time, ordered the Directorate for Human Resource and Doctrine Development (DHRDD) to place him and two other cadets engaged in a drinking session under restriction.
“The PNP has no tolerance for wrong doings of erring personnel, and will never tolerate any misconduct, abuse or breach of discipline,” said Sinas.
Cadet Nacnas was taken to the Qualimed Hospital for treatment and is now on stable condition. Cadet Dulansi, meanwhile, was turned over to the Silang Municipal Police Station for investigation.
The PNPA is one of the major sources of PNP officers—the cadets are government’s full scholars and are already receiving salary. After graduation, they would be commissioned as PNP officers with a rank of Police Lieutenant.
The PNP has earlier taken over the supervision of the PNPA to strengthen discipline-based training programs amid the controversies that hounded the Academy in the past that include hazing and allegations that its academic, leadership and disciplinary methods and policies are not at par with its counterparts in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA).
During the time of then PNP chief Alan Purisima, a standoff occurred between the PNP and the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) which then supervises the PNPA after a newly-ninstalled PNPA superintendent, a PMA graduate, initiated drastic reform programs for the PNPA.
The move was allegedly opposed by the PPSC which prompted an irate Purisima to pull out 49 police instructors in 2013. Alleged anomalies that expose cadets to wrongdoings were unmasked and cited as the reason why drastic reform program was needed at the PNPA.
In 2019, the PNP takes over PNPA and the National Police Training Institute (NPTI) which handles the training programs for new police recruits due to the enactment of Republic Act 11279.