Makati to get over 300 new cops in 2015 | Inquirer News

Makati to get over 300 new cops in 2015

By: - Reporter / @NCorralesINQ
/ 06:37 PM July 11, 2014

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MANILA, Philippines–The Philippine National Police (PNP) is deploying additional police force in Makati City to enhance its operational capability, a police spokesperson said Friday.

Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac, PNP spokesman, said the National Capital Region (NCRPO) would allocate 346 rookie police officers and four non-uniformed crime registrars in Makati for 2015.

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Sindac said the police officers would undergo training this year and would be ready for deployment next year.

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He said 117 police officers for troop augmentation are ready to be deployed to Makati as need arises.

The police augmentation came after Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay Jr. requested   for additional police forces following the spike of crimes in the city.

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According to him, the PNP leadership remains responsive to the perennial concern of shortage of police personnel not only in Makati but throughout the country.

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He said the police ratio in the country is 1: 675, less than 200 of the ideal ratio of 1: 500.

“The numbers have not drastically changed over the past two decades,but certainly, there had been marked improvements due to radical initiatives in terms of recruitment, deployment,nd human resource development to fully optimize every available warm body for police operations,” he said.

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