A Lecture on PNP P.A.T.R.O.L. Plan 2030 and CODE-P: 2013 and Beyond By PO3 Francisco B. Lindero, Jr.
The PGS gives much emphasis on public-private partnership (PPP) by considering ordinary citizens’ initiatives and their own governance programs that can contribute towards the pursuit of national strategic priorities. It aligns private and public portfolio of initiatives and action program with the long-term strategic needs of our country. In short, it invites public and private individuals and institutions to strengthen and contribute to the common good of the Philippines and the Filipino people. Through a Memorandum issued on July 9, 2009 by then Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, the PNP was mandated together with five (5) other national government agencies (NGAs): DPWH, DOH, DOTC, DepEd, and BIR, to participate in the MCC program requiring the institutionalization of PGS. Since then, the PNP supported by the its National Advisory Group for Police Transformation and Development (NAGPTD), has progressed in cascading PGS in all its offices and units. There are three (3) principal reasons for the selection of the PNP: namely, its development impact to the country and its perceived readiness for productive participation and involvement in good governance program. Also, the PNP is one government agency which performs services with regular face-to-face interaction with the ordinary citizens so that any improvement in its governance system will have immediate positive impact on the public/community it serves. Moreover, it has an existing Integrated Transformation Program (ITP) since 2005 capable of producing breakthrough results across all key activities of PNP administration and operations. The PNP ITP-PGS now known as the PNP P.A.T.R.O.L. Plan 2030: Peace and order Agenda for Transformation and upholding the Rule-Of-Law is the enhanced adaptation of the PNP ITP. It is the PNP’s Roadmap for strategic reforms that will transform the organization into a highly capable, effective and credible police service that is respected, trusted and loved by its personnel and the community with whom it works in partnership to bring about a safer environment to live, work and do business. The PNP P.A.T.R.O.L. Plan 2030 is the PNP’s Change Agenda which is anchored on the principle of transparency, accountability and stakeholder participation through clear and well-defined systems and procedures that are realistic, easily understandable, measurable and time-bound. This defined the way how the PNP effectively and efficiently delivers its mandate through human rights-based and community-oriented policing. Crime prevention efforts are given premium in partnership with stakeholders, through the conduct of more extensive consultation, dialogue, inter-faith and multi-cultural mitigation. Similarly, the PNP exerts great emphasis on enhancing the competencies, skills and capability of units and personnel, improving and integrating its systems and procedures, and filling-up its required logistical and other enabling resources.
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