From spinning to marching: DJ among applicants to join police
Today, 344 persons will take oath in Cebu City as Police Officer 1 and begin a rigorous 6-month training course.
His fans know him as DJ Macsoy, someone who plays the songs they request or dispenses advice on the radio.
Today, the former radio disc jockey will trade in spinning for sleuthing, as he joins 343 other individuals in taking oath as new police officers.
The DJ, Joesue Colipano, 26, when off the air, studied education in college but didn’t think he would thrive within a classroom’s confines. Besides, he added, he has always wanted to join the police force.
Previous applicants to the ser- vice have been a mixed group that included school principals, accountants, and call center agents. In the next six months, starting today, they’ll face a battery of drills and classes that will test their resolve to make law enforcement their career.
Three out of every four recruits in this batch are women. Senior Insp. Reslyn Abella, information officer of the Police Regional Office 7, confirmed that 261 of the 344 successful applicants are females. They will take oath in Camp Sergio Osmeña.
Joesue Colipano took an education course when he was in college, but he knew he would not thrive in a classroom environment.
Eleven months after he graduated in March 2013, he became a disc jockey. For three years, he was known as Deejay Macsoy of MOR 971.1. But he eventually got bored. So in the next six months, he will no longer play music, give advice to listeners and communicate with his loved ones as he will take oath as a Police Officer 1 today.
The 26-year-old Catmon native is one of 344 applicants, who passed the exams last year.
“I've always wanted to be a cop,” he said in Cebuano.
Senior Insp. Reslyn Abella, the Police Regional Office 7 information officer, said 261 of the successful applicants are males, while the rest are females.
Colipano said he learned while he was still a deejay that a well-informed society can help the police's fight against criminality.
“We should serve as an example to the community and do our job right so the public can look up to us,” he said in Cebuano.