Police in the Philippines will be making some big changes.
The Philippine National Police hopes to upgrade its capabilities, give housing, update equipment and most of all reform policemen and give what’s due to them through its 10-year integrated transformation program. The program, which will be the PNP’s roadmap to reform, has already started in 2005 and will be finishing in 2015.
In Zamboanga City, Police Regional Director Jaime Caringal accepted from Deputy Director General Jesus Verosoza the sybolic torch of reform after a 12-mile roadrun from Pasonanca, throught the city streets and ended at Camp Batalla – the police camp in Cawa-Cawa boulevard. Region 9 is the second to the last who receives the torch which came all the way from NCR.
Versoza who stood at the podium not panting after the roadrun, reiterated the need to reform policemen and promised a better police force in the next years to come. The integreated transformation program is the brainchild of Versoza who 
was named the next PNP chief days ago.
Hundreds of policemen ran through the quiet city streets as they started the roadrun shortly before 5am. Police cadets and elite police trainees started the run while more and more policemen joined along the way.
(Click here to view the PNP’s ITP program)
