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Lack of training, education among cops causing problems--Yamsuan

Published Sep 4, 2023 05:04 am

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  • Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan has underscored the supposed lack of training and continuing education among Philippine National Police (PNP) members that have led to botched operations. 

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Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan has underscored the supposed lack of training and continuing education among Philippine National Police (PNP) members that have led to botched operations. 

This, after Yamsuan learned during a recent hearing of the House Committee on Public Order and Safety that a certain policeman who led a questionable drug buy-bust operation in San Pedro, Laguna had yet to undergo any retraining or refresher course on police operational procedures since he entered the PNP in 2010.  

“So in his 13 years in the service, he never underwent the mandatory training required of police officers," said Yamsuan, who is a former assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). The DILG supervises the national police force. 

"This lack of training and continuing education in the PNP is among the reasons why problems occur during police operations, why there are missteps and irregularities committed,” the rookie congressman said. 

He said that at the very least, having the proper training would help prevent misconduct among police officers. 

“Huwag nating alalayan ang mga pulis kapag nagkamali na. Alalayan natin sila, turuan sila ng tamang police procedures, bago pa sila mag-conduct ng operations para walang kinabukasan ang nasisira,” Yamsuan said. 

(Don’t help our police officers after they have committed mistakes. Help them, teach them the proper police procedures before they conduct their operations so that no one’s future would be ruined).”  
 
During the briefing conducted by the House Committee on Appropriations for the proposed 2024 budget of the DILG, Yamsuan quizzed PNP Chief General Benjamin Acorda Jr. on how the police organization has been spending its funds for the education and training of its officers.   

Yamsuan noted that for 2024, the PNP has proposed a total budget of P1.26 billion for the education and training of its uniformed personnel--a reduction of almost 15 percent from the 2023 appropriation of P1.47 billion given to the same program. 

The sum of P300 million under the PNP’s police education program for 2023 involves training for law enforcement officers conducted by prosecutors and representatives of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to help improve evidence gathering and conviction rates in criminal cases.  

A report quoting the DOJ said that 80 percent of cases filed by prosecutors are dismissed by the courts because of lack of evidence or due to technicalities. These shortcomings are often committed by law enforcers at the scene of the crime.  

Yamsuan said he would fully support the PNP if it needs  additional funding for its police education program next year.

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