THE Philippine National Police (PNP) will start evaluating next year the performance, especially in crime prevention, of its high-ranking officials and results would serve as basis of retaining or sacking them.
According to PNP spokesman Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr., police officials will be sacked from their posts if the crime rate is high particularly in their assigned areas.
Cruz said that they would include in the evaluation the effectiveness of crime-prevention plans made by the officials.
“Starting 2012, we will start the evaluation of performance, (after the holiday season, when the crime rate is high). We will see if the PNP officials, especially station commanders in key cities, if their crime-prevention plans have been effective. Poor performance means removal from the service,” he told reporters.
The PNP said that the order of its chief, Director General Nicanor Bartolome, to conduct the evaluation would be implemented as scheduled.
Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo has said that this year’s crime rate is lower compared to last year’s.
This month saw the murder of a vice president of state-run Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila and the rape-slay of a student of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños in Laguna province in Calabarzon.
On Monday, Italian priest Fr. Fausto Tentorio of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions was shot dead in Arakan, North Cotabato province in southern Mindanao.
