A ranking police official of the Philippine National Police based at the national headquarters at Camp Crame, Quezon City on Friday said the organization wants to use technology in the prevention and solution of crimes.
Chief Supt. Alex Paul Monteagudo, deputy director, Directorate for Investigation Division Management (DIDM) of the PNP, during the closing ceremony of the one-month criminal investigation course for 62 police investigators of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office stressed this on Friday.
Monteagudo pointed out that criminals are already using modern technology to commit crimes like cyber sex, cyber recruitment, detonating bombs with the use of cellphones and the like.
He said the police would like to exploit this technology to capacitate the officers and men of the PNP in crime prevention and solution.
Aside from the Integrated Fingerprint Investigation Sytem (IPIS), the PNP has also acquired the Integrated Ballistic Identification System for cross-matching of evidences, electronic rogue gallery and new booking systems.
It is also propagating the electronic blotter system or the crime incident reporting system where information are stored and inputted in the computer for future references about crimes committed by certain police characters.
Former Negros Oriental provincial director Sr. Supt. Augusto Morales Marquez, Jr. is charged with coming up with a protocol and procedure on this matter, according to Chief Supt. Monteagudo.
This can be implemented in the Visayas because most of the police stations are already connected via the Internet, he said. (JFP/Juancho Gallarde/PNA)