PHThe government is bleeding with taxpayers money as the police operations to serve the warrant of arrest for Pastor Quiboloy, et al continues indefinitely.
The longer PNPNPRO 11 fails to achieve its mission, the more doubtful what truly is thier objective - whether to achieve peace and order and public safety objectives? or otherwise, which implies the PRO 11 has become a private army of some political master or foriegn power.
I hope that the social and economic benefits in the arrest of Pastor Quiboloy will outweigh the cost of this police operations, the objective of which, as articulated by PRO 11 spokesperson Catherine dela Rey to qoute: "the presense of the PNP at KOJC is to maintain peace and order" and "to serve justice to the victims".
From a Cost - benefit perspective, a patrolman’s salary in the PNP is 29,668.00, plus a long pay of 2,967.00 or a total 32,635.00. This means a little over 1,000.00 pesos a day for each police personnel employed for this mission. For the 3,000 policemen its around 3,000,000.00 pesos a day or 30M pesos for the past 10 days of operations for salaries of patrolman alone. Not yet included are the salaries of PBGEN, Colonel, LtCol, Maj, Capt, Lt, PEMS, Chief Msgt, Msgt, and Corporals.
PRO 11 allegedly, also hired "abanteros" for the excavation, not to mention the transportation and additional subsistence allowance (ASA) of deployed personnel at 150.00 per day in which those deployed coming from outside PRO 11 are entitled.
Other cost invoves the cost excavation, rental of equipments, payment of information and those arising from intelligence activities or confidential expenses and other support services such as aerial coverage of PNP helicopters.
The PNP PRO 11 has announced that "they will not leave until the wanted persons hiding inside KOJC compound are found" and that they are, "highly confident" that those wanted persons are still inside as reported by "reliable sources", and the use of technical and signal intelligence. This means increasing government expenditure until wanted persons are physically arrested as PRO 11 has given no difinite time frame yet.
In addition there are oppurtunity loss in deploying 3,000 PNP personnel. For a 1:500 standard police to population ratio, around 1.5 M of Filipinos were deprived of police services in the regions where these policemen were pulled out and supposed to be rendering duty; 3,000 families of policemen are suffering from the dislocation of their police parent or family member; and the effect to the physical and mental health to the policemen arising from the confusion whether they are still serving thier purpose, that is, "to serve and protect the people" or "otherwise" as stated in an open letter to the CPNP and RD PRO 11.
Yes the objective is noble - to serve justice; to arrest a "suspected" child trafficker or a "fugitive", which of course depends on whose side you are in the political tug of war. The arrest it seems to be a very top priority of PRO 11 by setting aside other priorities like anti insurgency, anti criminality, anti drugs and anti criminality, and antu terrorism operations given the employment of huge PNP human, financial and logistical resources of PNP PRO 11.
The responsibility and accountability of success or failure rests on the shoulders of the commanders whose twofold tasks are - accomplishment of the mission and ensure the welfare of thier men. Success in this police operation therefore, is essential. Failure is not an option considering continuing cost being incurred on a daily basis. Maybe, just maybe, after the past 10 days of operations, PRO 11 may think of other ways or strategy to accomplish their mission. Otherwise the cost of failure is incalculable - the embarrassment of this government and its leadership for having a "less efficient" if its not to be called an "incompetent police force" which is a reflection of its commander, not the men under his command. The men and women of PRO 11 has demonstrated its commitment to to duty in the past as they significantly contributed in making Davao Region "Insurgency Free".
If I may borrow Albert Einstiens qoute, "INSANITY is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".
To our dedicated and values oriented PNP personnel, its a difficult choice between, "Doing the right thing" and "Doing things right".
The longer PNPNPRO 11 fails to achieve its mission, the more doubtful what truly is thier objective - whether to achieve peace and order and public safety objectives? or otherwise, which implies the PRO 11 has become a private army of some political master or foriegn power.
I hope that the social and economic benefits in the arrest of Pastor Quiboloy will outweigh the cost of this police operations, the objective of which, as articulated by PRO 11 spokesperson Catherine dela Rey to qoute: "the presense of the PNP at KOJC is to maintain peace and order" and "to serve justice to the victims".
From a Cost - benefit perspective, a patrolman’s salary in the PNP is 29,668.00, plus a long pay of 2,967.00 or a total 32,635.00. This means a little over 1,000.00 pesos a day for each police personnel employed for this mission. For the 3,000 policemen its around 3,000,000.00 pesos a day or 30M pesos for the past 10 days of operations for salaries of patrolman alone. Not yet included are the salaries of PBGEN, Colonel, LtCol, Maj, Capt, Lt, PEMS, Chief Msgt, Msgt, and Corporals.
PRO 11 allegedly, also hired "abanteros" for the excavation, not to mention the transportation and additional subsistence allowance (ASA) of deployed personnel at 150.00 per day in which those deployed coming from outside PRO 11 are entitled.
Other cost invoves the cost excavation, rental of equipments, payment of information and those arising from intelligence activities or confidential expenses and other support services such as aerial coverage of PNP helicopters.
The PNP PRO 11 has announced that "they will not leave until the wanted persons hiding inside KOJC compound are found" and that they are, "highly confident" that those wanted persons are still inside as reported by "reliable sources", and the use of technical and signal intelligence. This means increasing government expenditure until wanted persons are physically arrested as PRO 11 has given no difinite time frame yet.
In addition there are oppurtunity loss in deploying 3,000 PNP personnel. For a 1:500 standard police to population ratio, around 1.5 M of Filipinos were deprived of police services in the regions where these policemen were pulled out and supposed to be rendering duty; 3,000 families of policemen are suffering from the dislocation of their police parent or family member; and the effect to the physical and mental health to the policemen arising from the confusion whether they are still serving thier purpose, that is, "to serve and protect the people" or "otherwise" as stated in an open letter to the CPNP and RD PRO 11.
Yes the objective is noble - to serve justice; to arrest a "suspected" child trafficker or a "fugitive", which of course depends on whose side you are in the political tug of war. The arrest it seems to be a very top priority of PRO 11 by setting aside other priorities like anti insurgency, anti criminality, anti drugs and anti criminality, and antu terrorism operations given the employment of huge PNP human, financial and logistical resources of PNP PRO 11.
The responsibility and accountability of success or failure rests on the shoulders of the commanders whose twofold tasks are - accomplishment of the mission and ensure the welfare of thier men. Success in this police operation therefore, is essential. Failure is not an option considering continuing cost being incurred on a daily basis. Maybe, just maybe, after the past 10 days of operations, PRO 11 may think of other ways or strategy to accomplish their mission. Otherwise the cost of failure is incalculable - the embarrassment of this government and its leadership for having a "less efficient" if its not to be called an "incompetent police force" which is a reflection of its commander, not the men under his command. The men and women of PRO 11 has demonstrated its commitment to to duty in the past as they significantly contributed in making Davao Region "Insurgency Free".
If I may borrow Albert Einstiens qoute, "INSANITY is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".
To our dedicated and values oriented PNP personnel, its a difficult choice between, "Doing the right thing" and "Doing things right".