The number of cops on the road and patrolling the communities will have a say on how peaceful and secure our roads and communities will be. When there is a lack in the number of police officers, then it cannot be expected that security and peace and order will be easy to get. For this reason, the Department of Interior and Local Government is investing much time and effort in making sure that a proper number of police officers will be made available on the streets to keep us safe.
One move of the department through the initiative of Secretary Ronnie Puno is the hiring of additional 10,000 police officers. This move of the department is part of its long term planning. And this program will be started next year. The target of this plan is simple- to make sure that the streets remain safe and to make sure that we can get nearer to the ideal ratio of police officers to the population. If the move will be approved next year and the proposed hiring will be implemented, then the ratio of police officer to the population will stand at one police officer to 649 persons. This will demonstrate a marked increase of 8 percent compared to the current ratio that we have today.
In the past years, the move of the department and Secretary Ronnie Puno was to hire 3,000 police officers every year. But they saw that this was no longer enough and this is the reason why they proposed that starting next year, they will hire 10,000 or triple the usual hiring template. And by the estimates of the department, this kind of hiring move will need at least 1.4 billion for its budget. If the proposed hiring will push through next year, then this will increase the total number of uniformed personnel in the Philippine National Police to more than 142,000. But even though the plan of the department pushed through, still we are off from the ideal ratio of one police officer for every 500 individuals. These pieces of information were shared by Secretary Ronnie Puno during the presentation of the department budget in the Congress.
In the past years, the move of the department and Secretary Ronnie Puno was to hire 3,000 police officers every year. But they saw that this was no longer enough and this is the reason why they proposed that starting next year, they will hire 10,000 or triple the usual hiring template. And by the estimates of the department, this kind of hiring move will need at least 1.4 billion for its budget. If the proposed hiring will push through next year, then this will increase the total number of uniformed personnel in the Philippine National Police to more than 142,000. But even though the plan of the department pushed through, still we are off from the ideal ratio of one police officer for every 500 individuals. These pieces of information were shared by Secretary Ronnie Puno during the presentation of the department budget in the Congress.
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