Garbo: Survey result wakeup call for PNP

CEBU, Philippines - Following the result of the Global Corruption Barometer showing the Philippine National Police as the most corrupt institution in the country, Police Regional Office-7 director Marcelo Garbo, Jr. believes that the PNP should go back to the drawing board and review its implementing plans.

Although the survey came as a surprise to him, Garbo said he is not contesting it.

“The survey was a surprise for me that our community has this bad perception against the police,” Garbo said.

According to him, he sees no reason why the PNP cannot achieve its goals with regards to the Performance Governance System.

The PGS means to showcase governance not only at the level of qualitative and purely word-based interpretations but more so to associate it with the perspective of measurable targets and metrics.

“Forerunner ang PNP in the lead of the reform agenda and with the result of the survey we have to check kung bakit ‘yan ang nangyari sa perception ng publiko,” Garbo said.

Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) director, Sr. Supt. Mariano Natu-el, Jr., on the other hand believes that the result of the survey does not reflect the entire police force.

He said the survey may have been conducted  in one area only where there are abusive and corrupt policemen.

 â€œBasin populace lang pud sa Manila or other parts of the country nga naay mga pulis nga abusado,” Natu-el said.

The Global Corruption Barometer of the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International showed that 69 percent of the surveyed Filipinos believe that the police were corrupt, 64 also believe that public officials and civil servants were affected by corruption and 58 percent had the same view on political parties.

The media and religious institution were perceived to be the least affected by corruption with 14 percent and 15 percent, respectively. Also, 56 percent of the respondents thought the judiciary was corrupt and 52 percent who have the same opinion on the legislature.

At least 43 percent of the respondents said that the military was corrupt.

The Global Corruption Barometer has been gathering the corruption views and experiences of people around the world since 2003. The survey covered more than 114,000 respondents in 107 countries.   (FREEMAN)