Ormoc welcomes 50 cop trainees

ORMOC CITY, Leyte, Jan. 14 (PNA) – The Ormoc City police office accepted 50 police trainees coming from the regional office to undergo Field Training Program (FTP) in the city for five months.

The new police recruits will be assigned in police station 1 to undergo practical exercises in various fields of actual police works, according to city police director Sr. Supt. Ferdinand M. Garay.

All of them are set to undergo trainings on basic police patrol, traffic and criminal investigations, including observation in real court proceedings under the professionalized program of the Philippine National Police (PNP).

Police Officer 2 Maria Rachel I. Salas, police non-commissioned officer said two Field Training Officers (FTO), one from Leyte Provincial Police Office (LPPO) and one from Southern Leyte were augmented to city police six training officers to handle these FTPs.

These new members of the country’s friendly force are part of the 283 personnel who took oath on July 1, 2015, the first cycle of last year’s recruits.

About 50 of them were assigned in Tacloban City and 83 in Palo town in Leyte.

Mayor Edward Codilla welcomed them at his office as they paid him courtesy visit on Tuesday.

These are part of the 283 new police recruits admitted during the first cycle in 2015. (PNA)
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