Greetings.

4 years and 7 days ago, I first raised my right hand and

took my oath to become part of a noble organization called,

Philippine National Police. I didn’t know what to expect then.

I was excited, amazed and feeling all positive for my first day

working with the uniformed personnel.

However, as the saying goes, “Walang madali sa

simula.” My first month at Police Regional Office 02 was one

of the most challenging days of my life. It was filled with

“Hindi na lang sana ako nag-apply dito.” I was complaining

each day and even cried whenever I come home from work. I

was assigned in one of the busiest Office and that with the

most number of personnel. Just imagine an Office with more

or less 20 personnel and I, alone, was there sitting in the

corner and not single one from among those 20 personnel

bother to come and talk to me. I didn’t have anything to do

then for I was not yet given my designation. Until one day,

somebody called out my name and gave my very first

instruction, “Jane, magserve ka naman ng meryenda sa

taas.” Di ba parang nakakainis? That was far from what I

expected to be doing. But with that I learned the first lesson

that PNP thought me. “Wag kang mag-expect. Masasaktan

ka lang.”

Same thing might have happened to you. Marami sa

atin maaring nag-expect ng mataas sa pagpasok natin sa

PNP. Kasi siyempre PNP yan, antaas eh. But that’s the

beauty in working with the uniformed, with the PNP as a

whole. You won’t get bored. You’ll never know what will

happen next. Ngayon hihingi sila ng crime statistics ng

buwan nato, mamaya crime statistics naman from January

2014 tapos bago mag-alas singko, may ifoforward na

message, zuluzulu, bagong format, period covered from

January 2013 to present. Oh di ba ang saya? Sa una maiinis

ka, pero habang ginagawa mo parang wala na lang. The life

of a PNP personnel is like that, full of surprises. Find your

happiness in between the difficulties. The fact that many of

our expectations are not met should not halt our motivation

to work for the better.

That may be the reason why it is imperative for us to

have this Personnel Orientation Course. This is to equip us

with the skill to correctly do our task and of course to

prepare us from what is really happening in the field.

To you my colleagues, I know you are still wondering

what will come in the future, kung madadagdagan ba o

mababawasan ang mga trabaho na ating haharapin at

susubok sa ating kakayahan. But I believe, thru the skills

and knowledge shared to us in this course by our young and

genuinely skilled NUP Supervisor Mam Meng with the

supplements of all skilled superiors from Regional

Headquarters, Mam Fle, Sir Al and Sir Tito I think we are

competitive and crafted enough to do all of the tasks we are

mandated to do no matter how demanding these task may

be.

The day we raised our right hand and took our oath, we

agreed to take on the challenge of being the partners of the

uniformed. With our superiors in the REGION, in the PPO and

the Uniformed personnel in our respective units on our back

there will be no hard task.

So to our Regional Director, and the rest of the Officers

present here today, we promise that next week, as we report

back in our respective offices, our COPs will be dealing with a

better and renewed NUP.

Thank you and good day.