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88% of LGUs have 'active' peace and order councils in 2021 -- DILG

Published Sep 16, 2022 11:25 am

A total of 1,477 (88.24 percent) out of the 1,715 local government units (LGUs) nationwide have active provincial, city, and municipal peace and order councils (POCs) in 2021, the Department of the Local Government (DILG) said Friday, Sept. 16.

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POCs are bodies created to carry out security measures at the local government level.

DILG Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. stressed that the creation of POCs at the localities is crucial to maintaining peace and order, and foster a progressive economy.

“We recognize the efforts of these 1,477 LGUs to continuously deliver good performance in promoting programs and policies aimed at intensifying peace and order in their respective jurisdictions and protecting citizens from the bad elements of our society,” Abalos said.

“The Marcos administration is relentless in its pursuit of reducing criminality and sustaining peaceful, orderly, and safe communities. One way to help reach this vision is to ensure that POCs at the local level are operating and functioning efficiently,” he added.

Abalos said the positive results of the POC performance audit is a clear manifestation of the LGUs’ adherence to peace and order-related laws and policies such as Section 16 of Republic Act (RA) No. 7160 or the Local Government Code and Section 3 of Executive Order (EO) No. 773, series of 2019 titled "Further Reorganizing the Peace and Order Council."

Among the Regional POCs that gained functional status for 2021 are Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Region 5, Region 6, Region 7, Region 9, Region 10, Region 11, Region 12, Region 13, National Capital Region (NCR), Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

“POCs have played an integral role in the government’s campaign to go grassroots in fighting criminality, illegal drugs, insurgency and violent extremism. It becomes an instrument for stronger collaboration between the administration and the LGUs in carrying out projects related to peace and order,” Abalos said.

Under DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2019–143, Series of 2019, POCs in the regional, provincial, city, and municipal levels are also mandated to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of programs, projects, and activities aimed to curb anti-criminality, anti-insurgency, and anti-illegal drugs to ensure peace and order, and public safety.

The POC performance audit seeks to evaluate the functionality of Regional, Provincial, City and Municipal POCs, acknowledge the innovations done by the POCs and their Secretariats, enhance POC strategies and interventions and build an avenue to showcase the best practices of the POCs.

For the recent audit, Abalos said the LGUs were evaluated based on their compliance to the prescribed membership composition in EO No. 773, the number of meetings conducted; three-year term-based plan and budget allocation; submitted accomplishment reports through the Peace and Order and Public Safety Plan Policy Compliance Monitoring System (POPSP-PCMS); initiated innovative programs on peace and order and public safety; and higher POCs’ general supervision of the lower POCs.

He stated that a local POC must earn an overall percentage score of not less than 65 percent to pass the audit and must not get a score lower than 50 percent in any of the six pillars, namely organization, meetings, policies, plan and budget, reports, innovations and general supervision, to be eligible for awards such as the Seal of Good and Local Governance (SGLG) with the LGUs integrating modern strategies receiving additional points.

“The assessment is done every year to strengthen POCs in localities and determine new mechanisms that may enrich peace and order and public safety,” the DILG chief noted.

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