CPPO aims top spot in PNP inspection

CEBU, Philippines - At least 200 personnel of the Cebu Provincial Police Office are undergoing intense training to meet their objective of topping the Annual General Inspection next month.

Members of the Provincial Public Safety Company are also taking part of the training. The inspection will be conducted by personnel from Camp Crame.

CPPO Director Senior Supt. Patrocinio Comendador said they are hoping to grab the top spot from the Negros Provincial Police Office, which topped the inspection last year. Striving for excellence is the way to do so, he said.

“So far wala pa jud ni ma-top ang province mura’g ika-number 3 or 4 lang out of the 8 competing offices,” Commendador said.

Senior Supt. Uriel Bragaiz, chief of the Regional Internal Affairs Service and his deputy, Supt. Jonas Ejoc, are supervising the training of the CPPO personnel.

The personnel are being trained on camp defense plan, immediate action drill, fire defense plan, responding bank robberies, conducting checkpoints, bomb assessment, bomb disposal, hostage crisis management, civil disturbance management platoon, earthquake drill, and response time test.

Supt. Teofilo Siclot, deputy provincial director for operation, who assisted the practice, said they are trying to perfect each demonstration to show to the public how well-trained personnel of CPPO are.

While CPPO is yet to prove itself in the AGI, the Cebu City Police Office has aced the inspection for three consecutive years from 2007 until last year when Comendador assumed as city police chief. He, however, left the Cebu City Police and assumed leadership of CPPO in March this year.

The AGI aims to help police personnel improve their appearance, readiness in security and operations, and investigative skills.

“If we are not be able to be number one this year, at least even one step higher than the other year,” Comendador said. — (FREEMAN)