A total of 256 applicants to the posts of corrections officer 1 (CO1) at the Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm (IPPF) in Palawan has taken their examinations, the Bureau of Corrections (Bucor) said.
The examinations were administered last April 12 and 13 by BuCor’s Human Resources Division (BuCor-HRD) with the assistance of the IPPF Human Resource Section (IPPF-HRS).
BuCor said that all those who took the examinations were all non-criminologists.
“The recruitment of personnel is in line with the implementation of the BuCor Modernization Law or RA (Republic Act) 10575 in addressing the need to provide an additional workforce in each Operating Prison and Penal Farm (OPPF),” it said.
It added that BuCor Director General Gregorio Pio P. Catapang Jr., through IPPF Supt. C/CInsp. Gary A. Garcia, is implementing a program to upgrade and increase the personnel to effectively attain the mandates of safekeeping and reforming the persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at IPPF.
Last December, Bucor hired 533 corrections officers who had been deployed in various prison facilities nationwide.
Of those hired, 289 were assigned at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City; 119 to the Davao Prison and Penal Farm (DPPF) in Davao del Norte; 26 to the IPPF; 22 to the Leyte Regional Prison (LRP) in Abuyog, Leyte; 35 to the Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm (SPPF) in Occidental Mindoro; and 42 to the San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm (SRPPF) in Zamboanga City.