Application for police officer recruitment program on- PNP

By Edna A. Bagadiong

VIRAC, Catanduanes, Sept 12 (PIA) -- The Catanduanes Provincial Police Office is now accepting applicants for the Police Officer 1 (PO1) Recruitment Program for this year.

The recruitment is intended to fill up the regional and provincial offices with lacking number of police personnel to be more responsive to the demands of an efficient and effective police office.

Accepted applicants will undergo a six month, rigid Public Safety Basic Recruit Course (PSBRC) followed by the six-month Field Training Program (FTP), upon passing all the mandatory processing requirements for permanent appointment.

Application folders must be directed to their respective municipal police stations that will endorse the same to the Provincial Office, then to the Regional Selection Board/Committee at PRO5, Camp Gen. Simeon A Ola, Legazpi City.

In the Regional Selection Board/Committee, applicants will be carefully screened and subjected to various tests, purposely to determine their physical, mental and psychological fitness to undergo the PSBRC training, and ensure that only the best qualified are accepted to the PNP service.

General qualifications for the applicants are as follows: a natural-born citizen; of good moral character; with a formal baccalaureate degree from a recognized learning institution; eligible in accordance with the standards set by the National Police Commission; must have passed the psychiatric/psychological, physical, medical, dental and drug test to be administered by the PNP Health Service and Crime Laboratory or any NAPOLCOM accredited government hospital for the purpose of determining the appointee’s physical and mental health; must have no pending criminal case in any court, including the office of the Ombudsman or administrative case if he/she is already an employee of the government;

Must not be dishonorably discharged from military employment or on AWOL or Dropped from Rolls from the PNP service, or dismissed for cause from any civilian position in the government; must be at least 1 meter and 62 centimeter (1.62m) in height for male and 1 meter and 57 centimeter (1.57cm) for female; must weigh not more or less than 5 kilograms (5.0 kg) from the standard weight corresponding to his/her height, age and sex; and, must not be less than twenty-one (21) nor more than thirty years (30) of age.

Applicants should bring the following documents: duly accomplished CSC Form 212 (Revised 2005); handwritten application letter (using black ballpen); Birth Certificate authenticated by the NSO; eligibility authenticated by the issuing authority (NAPOLCOM,PRC RA 6506); 2 pcs “2X2” black & white picture indicating applicant’s name; bust and whole body picture; Transcript of Records and Diploma (authenticated by the school registrar); Certificate of Good Moral Character from the state college or university; clearances from barangay, local police station, RTC/MTC/NBI; medical certificate issued by the local health office and ECG result; and, fingerprints and handwriting specimen from NAPOLCOM. (MAL/EAB/PNP Catanduanes/PIA)


DTI follows new scheme for processing ICC stickers

By Bennie A. Recebido

SORSOGON CITY, Sept 12 (PIA) -– The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Sorsogon has announced the new schedule of processing requests for Imported Commodity Certification (ICC) stickers for helmets and visors used by motorists.

Leah Pagao, DTI Sorsogon provincial director, said based from the latest memorandum sent by the DTI central office, the processing of request shall be in accordance with the following scheme: For surnames of applicants starting with letters A to I are scheduled this month of September, surnames beginning with letters J to P are scheduled on October while surnames beginning with letters Q to Z are scheduled November, all this year.

“The implementation of said scheme will thwart possible delay in the processing of requests caused by the crowding of applicants in DTI offices,” said Pagao.

She added that applicants are required to submit the photocopy of their driver’s license when requesting for ICC stickers.

Mandatory certification of helmet and visors was intensified by virtue of the Joint Administrative Order No. 1 series of 2012 of the Department of Transporation and Communication and DTI.

It equires motorists to register their helmets and visors for their personal safety while driving anywhere. (MAL/BAR-PIA5/Sorsogon)


NGCP, Canoreco lead greening project in Camarines Norte

By Marlon A. Loterte

LEGAZPI CITY, Sept 12 (PIA) -- The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) initiated a tree planting program together with Camarines Norte Electric Cooperative (Canoreco) in support to the National Greening Program (NGP) of the government.

The group of officials and employees from NGCP has planted 1,500 seedlings of narra and mahogany in Brgy. Daguit, Labo, Camarines Norte, one of the barangays hosting NGCP’s Labo-Gumaca 230-kiloVolt lines.

“Our partnership with Canoreco does not end in delivering reliable electricity to the consumers. It extends to serving the community and protecting the environment as well,” said Gomercindo De Leon, NGCP transmission engineer in Labo.

De Leon said, as the country’s sole power transmission service provider and system operator, NGCP operates and maintains high-voltage electrical facilities such as transmission lines and substations spread throughout thousands of barangay-communities nationwide.

He added that to replenish trees affected in maintaining transmission facilities, NGCP regularly implements reforestation and tree seedling dispersal activities.

The NGP target is to plant 1.5 billion seedlings in 1.5 million hectares of public lands nationwide from 2011 to 2016. It is more than twice the government’s accomplishment for the past 25 years.

Areas for planting under the program include forestlands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservations, urban areas under the greening plan of LGUs, inactive and abandoned mine sites, and other suitable lands of the public domain. (MAL-PIA5/Albay)