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The proposal to allow high school graduates to enter the Philippine National Police (PNP) would make for an efficient and disciplined police force.
As I said in Thursday’s column, high school graduates are more pliable and easier to handle than college graduates, a requirement for entry into the PNP.
A law passed a few years ago requires a police applicant to be a college degree holder.
Most policemen, on account of their being college degree holders, refuse to be subjected to discipline and find it below their dignity, for example, to be seen patrolling the streets or directing traffic.
Everybody wants to live up to their title of “officer” which, in the military, applies to those with the rank of lieutenant to general.
An officer in the police stands for police officer, the lowest rank in the PNP.
Their arrogance, stemming from having finished college, means nothing because most of them have a low IQ, can’t speak or write straight English, and have the mentality of a person in his preteens.
The last trait makes them dangerous because like a child, they can’t be entrusted with a gun.
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The Philippine Constabulary (PC), which the PNP replaced, was much more disciplined because its rank and file was composed of high school or elementary school graduates.
PC troopers didn’t take on airs when they were with their superiors, who were college graduates, because they knew their place.
In contrast, a typical police officer 1 (PO1), whose counterpart is that of a private in the Army, doesn’t defer to an inspector (equivalent to a lieutenant in the military) because, to him, both are college degree holders.
In the PNP, everybody thinks he’s boss and this mentality leads to indiscipline in the ranks.
“I have the same educational qualification as the inspector, so why should I salute or obey him?” is what one hears from the lowest-ranked policemen.
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Most policemen who joined the force after the enactment of the law requiring all of them to have a college degree are dregs among college graduates.
Most new policemen are dumb.
If they’re not, why do most of them get into trouble with the law, which they are supposed to uphold?
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