THE Police Regional Office (PRO)-Zamboanga Peninsula has awarded Medalya ng Papuri (PNP Commendation Medal) to five deserving personnel for the good deeds they have done in the line of duty, an official said.
Police Captain Edwin Duco, PRO-Zamboanga Peninsula information officer, said the awarding ceremony highlighted the celebration Monday, January 4, of the 27th Philippine National Police (PNP) Ethics Day.
Duco said the awardees were Staff Sergeant Sheila Munsing, Non-Uniformed Personnel (NUP) Fatma Halipa and Forzhia Tañedo, Lieutenant Harris Ladja and Lieutenant Kent Palo.
Duco said Munsing, Halipa and Tañedo of Zamboanga City Police Office's (ZCPO) Station 8 received the award for rendering immediate medical assistance to a pregnant woman aboard a passenger jeep that resulted in the successful delivery of a healthy boy at the Ayala Lying-In Hospital in Zamboanga City.
Ladja of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion-9 was accorded the award for assisting a person with disability (PWD) in Putik village who was about to travel with wheelchair to his residence in Mercedes village.
Palo of the Zamboanga Sibugay 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company was awarded medal for initiating project "Vaccine" (Values and Affection towards Community-Centered Initiative on New normal Education).
Palo's project focused on lifting education by extending assistance on modular learning strategy in order to fill up the space between teachers and students located in the area of Zamboanga Sibugay.
Duco said the PNP Ethics Day is an annual celebration to constantly remind and reinforce the adherence of policemen on the ethical doctrine, which contains the moral values, disciplined, professional and morally upright policemen.
Meanwhile, Duco said that City Prosecutor Ricardo Cabaron, the guest of honor and speaker during the activity, has reiterated to the personnel to revisit the provision of Republic Act 6713, known as Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards of the PNP, particularly on the core values and the police officer's creed.
Cabaron said every policemen carries the public image and reputation of the whole PNP organization as they obliged to deliver a standard quality of police services to the community that they oath to serve and protect.
This year's celebration of PNP Ethics Days is anchored on the theme: "Magkakaisang Pambansang Pulisya, Sama-sama Serbisyong Tapat at Marangal Para sa Bayan." (SunStar Zamboanga)