Sixty-six new graduates of Senior Custodial Supervisory Course are expected to beef up efforts of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) to address organizational problems.

BuCor Director General Gregorio Pio P. Catapang Jr. said that the bureau’s organizational structure is flat, with most of the officials belonging to "grade one" status that need to be fast-tracked. Structural problems, on the other hand, are due to lack of facilities, he said.

Addressing the graduates, Catapang said: "With this graduation, you are more disciplined with proper attitude, equipped with strong moral values, more decisive, innovative, more resourceful so you will all be promoted for higher ranks or positions.”

"This is an important milestone for you will be remembered in the annals of BuCor’s history as the first graduates of this course,” he said.

He expressed hopes that by 2028, or even earlier, BuCor's organizational and structural problems would be fully solved.

The graduates, who finished their course at the Corrections National Training Institute of BuCor, were feted during a simple ceremony held at the social hall of the BuCor administrative building in Muntinlupa City.

Of those who graduated and finished the course, 34 are from New Bilibid Prison, nine from San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm, eight from Davao Prison and Penal Farm, eight from Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm, four from Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm, and three from Correctional Institution for Women.