MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, May 5 (PIA) --- Thirty-five selected police officers in the province are currently undergoing a five-day training on standard first aid and basic life support to enhance their knowledge and skills on how to effectively respond to various emergency situations.
Sr. Supt. Rodolfo Asejo Llorca, provincial police director, said the enhancement training aims to further improve the life-saving skills of police officers as first-hand emergency responders.
He said they are training their policemen so that when disaster occurs, they are ready and well-prepared for it and emphasized that the more prepared the responders are, the more lives they can save.
The training which started on May 2 and culminates on May 6 is being conducted in partnership with the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC), Lanao del Sur-Marawi City Chapter headed by First Lady Raifa Adiong.
Llorca said the activity is just one of the much training to be undertaken by them as part of the Lanao del Sur Police Provincial Office (LSPPO) Human Resource Capacity-Building Project.
Chief Inspector Mary Grace Madayag, Project Manager and Assistant Provincial Director for Operations, said the goal of the project is to improve the capacity of LSPPO personnel on the areas of individual personal safety, first aid skills, English language usage, computer operations, and other livelihood skills.
She further said that the project forms part of the agreement forged by LSPPO, PNRC, Tactical Foundation Training and Assessment Center, Inc. (TFTACI) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) last March.
“It is also aligned to the Integrated Transformation Program (ITP) of the Philippine National Police (PNP),” she added.
The ITP was designed to support achieving the PNP reform goal of enhancing delivery of peace and order and public safety services within the context of an improved public trust and confidence in the criminal justice system. (Apipa Bagumbaran/PIA10)
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