PBBM TO PNPA GRADS: CAREERS SHOULD BE MEASURED BY QUALITY OF SERVICE NOT SPEED OF PROMOTION

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. reminded on Friday this year’s Philippine National Police Academy’s (PNPA) graduates that their careers should not be measured by the speed of their promotions but by the quality of their service to the people.

“Let me remind you that your career should not be measured by the speed you have moved up the ranks alone, but by the quality of the service that you have given to our people,” President Marcos said in his message during the 45th PNPA Commencement Exercises for Layag-Diwa Class of 2024.

“The service you are about to consecrate your life to is not a race to collect insignia nor accumulate prized assignments. It is to do as much good as often to as many without expecting any reward in return, because service itself is our reward,” he said.

According to the President, there is no shortage of fine exemplars in the PNP, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP). He told the graduates that they are joining the nation’s police, fire, and jail services at a crucial time in the nation’s history.

The government has made great strides in the crusade against crime and advanced the cause of peace and order, Marcos said, urging them to tread a better path and remember to build on what their predecessors have started.

Marcos also told the members of the PNPA “Layag-Diwa” Class to let the school’s core values of Justice, Integrity, Service “be the wind that propels you forward.”

At the same time, the President urged this year’s graduating PNPA class to leverage on available digital and information technology (IT) to combat crime, serve the people, and carry out innovation related to their service.

Of the 223 graduating PNPA cadets, 199 will serve the PNP, 12 will be enlisted at the BJMP and another 12 will join the BFP.

Established through various executive and legislative issuances, the PNPA was created in pursuit of professionalizing public safety service in the country.

Through Republic Act 11279, an amendatory law to RA 6975, PNPA’s organizational control and management was transferred from the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) to the PNP.