MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, Mar. 9 (PIA) --- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will be offering free skills training to local police officers to help them improve their performance.
This was confirmed during the signing of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the TESDA, Lanao del Sur Police Provincial Office (LSPPO), Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) and the Tactical Foundation Training and Assessment Center, Inc. (TFTACI) on March 8, at the LSPPO headquarters.
The forging of partnership wherein the different programs and projects of the four (4) parties are entangled into one is the first of its kind in the province, cited TESDA Provincial Director Tarhata Mapandi.
She emphasized that the MOA signing formalized their agreements to help the Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel to project themselves as the true security and peace officers in the province.
“With the support of the PNRC and TFTACI, we are planning to implement free skills training program to be conducted in every municipality where PNP officers are assigned,” she said.
Mapandi further explained that TESDA will provide training to PNP personnel on emergency responses which include fire drills and first-aid and client relations or the so-called ‘front office.’
“We will, likewise, involve them into language skills upgrading in time for the opening of our Language Skills Institute sometime this April or May,” she added.
As counterpart, the LDSPPO will identify the target areas and PNP personnel who will undergo training and to support TESDA in terms of financial and other logistical needs of the training.
Mapandi added that as stipulated in the MOA, the LSPPO will issue special order to mandate all their personnel to participate in the different personality and skills development trainings.
She also disclosed that they will commence the training as soon as they are able to arrange all the training needs and that they will be starting first with the PNP officers in the provincial headquarters before they will be conducting the training in the different towns of the province.
Following the MOA signing was the conduct of a bloodletting operation where some provincial PNP personnel donated their blood after passing the medical screening.
The bloodletting activity was conducted by PNRC headed by its chapter president, Raifa Adiong and facilitated by the Tactical Foundation led by Faridah Adilao. (Apipa Bagumbaran/PIA-10 Marawi)
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