PRO6, DepEd sign pact on ‘Pulis Ko, Titser Ko’
Fourth graders in selected public schools in Western Visayas will soon get first-hand knowledge on crime prevention from the experts themselves under the Philippine National Police’s “Pulis Ko, Titser Ko” program.
Chief Supt. Samuel Pagdilao Jr., representing the Police Regional Office 6, and Regional Director Mildred Garay, in behalf of the Department of Education 6, signed the memorandum of agreement for the implementation of the program during the rites held at the Boracay Hall of the DepEd Regional Office in Iloilo City yesterday.
The “Pulis Ko, Titser Ko” program is a strategic school-based crime awareness project of PNP and DepEd in Region 6 wherein policemen from different police units of PRO6 who were former teachers or Education graduates will teach 20- to 30-minute lectures to Grade 4 pupils in selected public elementary schools.
The subjects will be on crime prevention awareness and child safety, welfare and development, along with the values of patriotism, nationalism, among others.
The program also aims to enhance the moral foundation of young students and strengthen their resistance to crime so that they will become productive, responsible, and law-abiding citizens in the future.
Part of the agreement states that the two agencies will collaborate in formulating a Grade 4 curriculum and teaching methodology to be used in the program implementation.
Pagdilao said the program is scheduled to start on the first week of September simultaneously in 133 municipalities and 16 districts of Iloilo and Bacolod cities.
Both partner-agencies will select one public elementary school in every municipality that will become the beneficiary of the program.
Pagdilao said the MOA signing is a great leap to the PRO6’s strategic campaign against crime because it will effectively prevent children from falling into the hands of criminals through efforts that transcend ordinary police work.
The “Pulis Ko, Titser Ko” is founded on a Biblical doctrine that says “Train a child in the way he should go and when he grows up he will not depart from it.”
“Part of the objective of “Pulis Ko, Titser Ko” is to teach young students lessons on obedience of our laws and respect for law enforcers, crime prevention and avoidance, drug awareness, moral and value enhancement, and patriotism and nationalism,” Pagdilao said.
“Pulis Ko, Titser Ko” is the brainchild of Pagdilao when he was still director of Northern Police District in the National Capital Region.*
