The Philippine National Police (PNP) in Negros Oriental has resumed its online survey on performance evaluation as part of the PNP Patrol Plan 2030.
“The community engagement form is actually an online survey to measure public understanding and perception of the PNP”, said Sr. Supt. Edwin Portento, acting provincial police director for Negros Oriental.
According to Sr. Supt. Portento, the online survey was started years back but was stopped when the province of Negros Oriental was removed from Central Visayas or Region 7 and transferred to the then newly-created Negros Island Region (NIR) with the PNP Regional Office 18 (PRO-18) as its mother unit.
But President Duterte had abolished the NIR effective Sept. 30, 3017, which returned Negros Oriental to Region 7 and Negros Occidental to Region 6.
With this, Sr. Supt. Portento said the resumed the online survey to catch up with the PNP Regional Office 7.
The survey forms are posted on social media such as Facebook, with no specific targeted number of respondents as they would like to get as many suggestions and comments, he said.
This is like a “feedback mechanism if the community feels that there is ongoing change in the PNP”, Portento stressed.
It would also give the people an avenue for them to put in suggestions to improve the PNP’s services, he added.
This PRO-7 is now on its 3rd stage in the implementation of the PNP Patrol Plan 2030 that has four stages, namely, Initiation, Compliance, Proficiency and Institutionalization, Portento pointed out.
The Negros Oriental PNP is now in the second stage of implementation, he said. (Judy Flores Partlow/PNA)