The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has started hiring 1,000 corrections officers and 137 non-uniformed personnel to beef up its manpower in its prison facilities nationwide.
In an announcement, BuCor said its one-stop-shop recruitment booth will continue to operate until Nov. 18 in its national headquarters in Muntinlupa City.
It said it is hiring “committed and qualified individuals who carry with them the spirit of integrity, vigilance, God-fearing, and innovativeness.”
“Come and join the BuCor in attaining its volition and vision of a Modernized Institution and Correctional Facility in the Philippines through the restoration of ethics, fair-mindedness, orderliness, righteousness, and morale,” it also said.
BuCor Officer-in-Charge Gregorio Pio P. Catapang Jr. had earlier placed under floating status over 50 BuCor officials and personnel who were brought in by suspended BuCor Director General Gerald Q. Bantag from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP).
Catapang said he is eyeing their return to the BJMP considering that the BuCor and BJMP memorandum of agreement concerning the transfer had last September.
Last Monday, Nov. 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said that an investigation is being conducted on the BJMP officials and personnel brought by Bantag to BuCor.
“They were absorbed from BJMP into BuCor and were given very high ranks despite their low ranks in BJMP,” the DOJ and DILG said.
“This violated Item 15 of Civil Service Commission Memorandum Circular No. 3, Series of 2001 which prohibits the promotion of an employee to a position more than three (3) salary grades above his or her former position,” the DOJ and DILG also said.
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