ILOILO City – On Oct. 20, 314 patrolmen and patrolwomen successfully completed their 60-day Basic Internal Security Operations Course (BISOC), giving the Western Visayas police force more teeth in its anti-insurgency campaign.
Held at the mobile group training center in Sara, Iloilo, BISOC was a mandatory training for all police personnel.
According to Police Brigadier General Rene Pamuspusan, director of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6), it equipped the cops with the right knowledge, attitude, skills, and values that will make them more capable and qualified to be assigned in the mobile forces of the Philippine National Police (PNP) whose primary function is to confront problems on internal security.
Pamuspusan said the 314 personnel will return to the PRO-6’s Regional Personnel and Holding Unit while waiting for their deployment to regional and provincial mobile force companies.
“The skills that you acquired during the training must be put to good use in furthering not only our campaign against illegal drugs but also in our effort to end local communist armed conflict,” Pamuspusan told the cops.
There were supposed to be 320 BISOC trainees but six were not able to graduate; they were caught drinking in a public place.
To recall, six policewomen were caught drinking liquor in Barangay Pasig, Sara on Sept. 12. They were relieved and slapped with administrative charges.
“They violated an order not to drink liquor in public places. Besides, they are under training. They are not allowed to go out from the training camp,” Pamuspusan said./PN
