Politics and Policing in the Philippines: Challenges to Police Reform

Philippine policing system has different story to be detailed. Through this article we will
determine that police reform regarding the transform the values, culture, policies and practices
of police organizations so that police can perform their duties with respect for democratic
values, human rights and the rule of law. The article entitled "Politics and Policing in the
Philippines: Challenges to Police Reform” we will know how Politics is related n policing system.
It will explain all of the how it become, why it was done like that, what happen it that history
and some question that is related in policing system. It also stated there the problems of the
PNP reform. Reading the article will clear our mind from the question we want to answer that is
related in history.

In research done on the Philippine National Police, this writer has found that it is extremely
difficult for a police officer to get ahead in the institution without the help of political or
institutional supporters, who are usually higher ranking officers or political leaders or both. In
this article, it stated there that the leader will decide or control the forces which the politics
defines the relationship between police and the wider structure of Government, within the
Philippine National Police itself, patronage politics is an institutional problem. Some challenges
that the Philippine National Police is facing by that time is the NPA or the New People’s Army
which is there kind of barrier for their propaganda. While the Philippine National Police may
have all of these problems, it is actually trying to resolve them through its own institutional
programs towards self-reform. They always find a way to overcome the challenges that they
have to achieve and to have peace in country.

Reading the article consisting the total of twenty-five pages that contains the explanation about
the policing system from the history. Through the problems that the Philippine National Police
fight, these article explain what is reason of their propaganda which is they are making the
society and its citizen part of the process of the police reform. The participation here is still
being controlled and managed by the Philippine National Police. It is similar to community
policing, in which the citizen may have some participation in the processes of policing, but it is
the police who ultimately control the interactions between them and the wider community.
The problems of policing are merely part of a wider social problem, participation and
collaborative governance could go some way towards enabling both citizens and police to come
to a realization about the true nature of the problems in and around the Philippine National
Police, the wider society to which it belongs and in which it functions, come to a mutual
understanding of each other and what needs to be done, and eventually come to some
meaningful and beneficial decisions towards true institutional reform. May the government or
the leaders achieve their goal from their propaganda.