Capiz PNP launches BPATs
ROXAS CITY – Capiz Police Provincial Office (CPPO) has launched the Barangay Peace Keeping Actions Teams (BPAT) to intensify its peacekeeping efforts in the province last Nov. 10 at Capiz Gym here.
Seventeen BPATs representing pilot barangays of Roxas City and different municipalities provincewide took the oath as part of the launching and first meeting of the Capiz People’s Congress.
Each team is composed of a Barangay Chairman and seven tanods under the supervision of the local police’s chief and Police Community Relations Police Non-Commissioned Officer (PCR PNCO.)
These peacekeeping teams will assist authorities in the implementation of its crime prevention programs by reporting potential peace and order problems to village or police officials.
Capiz Gov. Victor A. Tanco led the oath taking as guest speaker of the simple oathtaking rites.
“These tanods are laudable because they serve for free,” Tanco noted, as he also cited the provincial government’s programs and assistance for the barangay peacekeepers and health workers under his administration.
For his part, Capiz Police Director Senior Supt. Josepheus Angan laid down the basis and concept for the creation of the BPATs while the tanods lined up at the stage for the swearing in activity.
The CPPO initiative is in line with President Gloria Macapagal – Arroyo’s Executive Order No. 546 which authorizes the Philippine National Police to deputize the barangay tanods as force multipliers in the fight against criminality, insurgency and terrorism. (PIA/A.Lumaque)
