A TOTAL of 5,599 cops were dismissed from the PNP Service from July 2016 until March 30, 2022 after facing administrative charges due to grave offenses.
The Internal Affairs Service of the PNP has taken an aggressive stance in handling and investigating police personnel who were meted with administrative charges.
The PNP has vowed to fight against corruption within the PNP system through its massive Internal Cleansing Program.
Apart from the dismissal from Service, several penalties were imposed to police personnel who were charged for less serious offenses.
Data from July 2016-March 2022 shows that 1,129 were demoted, 10,490 were suspended, 848 faced forfeiture of salary, 2,475 were reprimanded, 208 were restricted and privileges were withheld for 286 personnel.
Of the 5,599 dismissed cops, 714 of them are involved in illegal drug related cases.
These numbers of penalized personnel reflect the PNP’s commitment to cleanse its ranks in order to carry out their mandate in protecting the community.
Working hand in hand with the PNP IAS is the PNP Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (PNP-IMEG).
IMEG’s functions include the following: receive complaints and information against erring personnel and conduct relevant information gathering activities, detect and conduct intelligence build-up on the involvement of PNP personnel in illegal activities, acts of graft and corruption and other crimes for the conduct of prompt counter measures; and initiate law enforcement operations against rogue PNP personnel.
Moreover, the Department of Justice, through the National Bureau of Investigation, is currently carrying out its independent investigation on cases of anti-drug operations and the PNP has given its full cooperation in the investigation.
With this conscious effort of the PNP, PNP IAS and PNP IMEG to thwart corruption within the organization, the PNP wishes to oppose the statement from the recent report of the United States Department of State’s latest annual country reports on human rights stating that IAS remained largely ineffective.
Although we are not completely disregarding this report, the PNP would like to respond to it with all the significant accomplishments of IAS, as mentioned above.
It will be unfair for the PNP to be regarded as an organization that tolerates impunity and human rights abuses.
The PNP will always stand for what is right, just and fair. Although it’s going to be an uphill battle for the PNP, we will be enforcing the law without fear and favor. We will continuously improve our system and organization in order to protect and serve the Filipino community.
