PNP holds dialogue on improving police force, services

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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police (PNP) held a dialogue on Tuesday with stakeholders and invited guests with the aim of improving the police force.

“The ‘Isangguni Mo Kay Tsip’ [dialogue] will serve as a venue to address the needs of the community and also to assess the delivery of police service,” PNP Spokesman, Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr. said in a statement.

“With the said dialogue, PNP Chief Director General Nicanor Bartolome and his staff will sit down and converse with stakeholders to accommodate and resolve their queries, problems and other PNP-related matters of significant importance to the public,” Cruz said.

The dialogue will also be held “in all Police Regional Offices so as not to limit or defeat the purpose of enhancing the services of the entire PNP,” he added.

The PNP also took the opportunity to disseminate information about the different PNP office’s functions for public awareness.

Cruz estimated that around 1,500 attendees filled the PNP National Headquarter’s multi-purpose center for the dialogue

“It is indeed high time for the Filipinos to exercise active participation and involvement in such activity to attain their long-desired reforms in government offices,” Cruz said.

“Such dialogue is very essential in advancing behavioral reforms in government, particularly in the organization, in order to achieve the end goal of client satisfaction through rendering quality police service to the people,” Bartolome said in the statement.