PNP: 63% trust rating ‘reflects efforts to maintain peace and order’
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday said a survey result showing a majority of Filipinos trusted and were satisfied with the law enforcement agency “reflected its efforts in peace and order.”
The latest survey from the poll firm Octa Research showed that the PNP received a 63-percent trust rating and a 61-percent satisfaction rating.
“The said result reflects the police force’s efforts to maintain peace and order, to enforce the law and to protect communities,” PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said in Filipino in a statement.
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“The PNP remains focused on humane and fast law enforcement while continuously intensifying its campaign against criminality and strengthening its community engagement,” he added.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in separate messages both during the 35th anniversary of the PNP’s reorganization last January and the latest PNP Academy graduation last March, challenged the national police force to uphold its public trust.
Further, the survey on the PNP’s trust and satisfaction rating came despite the agency’s watchdog, the Internal Affairs Service (IAS), flagging an increase in the number of police officers administratively charged for various offenses of law enforcement procedures.
A total of 1,048 police officers were administratively charged from January to March 2026, compared to 770 during the same period in 2025, according to the IAS.
Nartatez previously defended the number of cases in a chance interview with reporters in Camp Crame on Tuesday, saying “If the cases went up, perhaps, the resolutions also went up.”
In a press briefing in Camp Crame later on Wednesday, PNP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Randulf Tuaño noted that the survey only covered the period from January to March 2026.
He further noted that the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the PNP’s Safer Cities initiative was only launched last April 6.
“Inaasahan natin mas tataas pa yung rating natin kaugnay ng pagbaba ng ating eight focus crimes sa simula ng Safer Cities,” Tuaño maintained.
(We expect our ratings to further increase in relation to the decrease of our eight focus crimes with the beginning of the Safer Cities initiative.)
Focus crimes refer to murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, robbery, theft, and carnapping.
The Safer Cities initiative tasks law enforcers with implementing stricter bans on drinking in public; roaming shirtless; and karaoke use beyond 10 p.m. as well as curfews for minors.
The PNP previously reported that the crime rate dropped by 13 percent in April 2026, compared to the previous three months. /jpv /gsg
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