PNP touts capability upgrades, stations in far-flung areas

MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) said it continues to boost its capabilities as well as its presence in far-flung areas to ensure peace and order.

PNP public information office chief Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan said the police force's capability enhancement program focuses on the acquisition and upgrading of equipment and its ability to "move, shoot, communicate, and investigate".

“We would like to thank our President (Ferdinand Marcos Jr) for providing us funds to achieve our fill-up percentage requirement and we would like to report that on our move capability, we were able to achieve or attain a 54 percent percentage fill-up of our requirement for the year and for our shoot capability we are nearing our 100 percent percentage fill-up, we were able to achieve 99 percent for this year and for our communicate capability we were able to achieve our target for the year and now we have 64 percent percentage fill-up and on our investigative capabilities we were able to achieve a 52 percent percentage fill-up,” Maranan said during the post-State of the Nation Address (SONA) Discussions at the Hilton Hotel Manila in Pasay City on Wednesday afternoon.

With this, he said the PNP can now effectively perform its mandate as the primary law enforcement agency of the country.

Maranan also reported the completion of 140 infrastructure projects, mostly composed of police stations in far-flung areas.

“So ngayon po mas madali nang maabot ng ating mga kababayan yung ating pulis sapagkat marami na tayong naipatayong police station lalong lalo na dun sa mga geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (So now it's easier for our countrymen to reach our police because we built more police stations, especially in geographically