Rody to PNP: Shape up

The Philippine National Police (PNP) leadership must instill more discipline among its personnel because a good number of police officers have become sloppy and lazy in performong their duties and responsibilities, President Duterte rued last Wednesday.

The President admitted that the police force used to be in a good fighting mode at the start of the martial law years but later went into a slump.

Duterte reminded police officers to shape up and remain alert given the lingering threats from the communist rebels and other lawless elements.

“There is much to be desired, I’m very sorry to say that,” the President said during the oath-taking of members of the PNP Academy Alumni Association, Inc. board of trustees in Malacañang last Wednesday.

“Yung disiplina ninyo taasan ninyo nang kaunti [Improve your discipline] And most of the police are quite lazy, almost indolent sa probinsya [in the province],” he said.

He said a lot of police officers, especially those in the countryside, have become so sloppy, in the wake of the recent rebel attacks on police detachments.

While he asked the country’s police officers to shape up, the President promised to strengthen the country’s police and military’s capabilities particularly in terms of intelligence gathering.