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The Philippine National Police (PNP) has crafted a program for higher standards of public governance by participating in the Performance Governance System (PGS), the local adaptation of the balanced scorecard for national government agencies, local government units, and private sector corporations.
The PGS requires each participating national government agency, LGU, or private sector corporation to craft its own governance charter statement. This includes three elements: A vision; a mission, and a set of core values. The PNP has put forward all these elements of its governance charter statement in one page.
First, the PNP vision statement is as follows: Imploring the aid of the Almighty, by 2030, we shall be a highly capable, effective and credible police service, working in partnership with a responsive community towards the attainment of a safer place to live, work, and do business. This is the dream our PNP is committed to realize by 2030. This is how it sees itself becoming twenty years from now, and ideally perhaps even before then.
It is a bold, audacious goal, which our PNP commits to achieve within a given, specific time-frame. In setting a goal of becoming a highly capable, effective and credible police service, our PNP also identifies the main pathway it shall travel on in order to achieve it. Indeed, it proposes to be working in partnership with a responsive community, both at the national and local levels. Only with such a partnership, which needs to be operational and fully functioning, would it be able to help in the attainment of a safer place to live, work, and do business in. The PNP sees itself as in need of reaching out to the local and national community so a working partnership can be forged in securing a safer environment. Absent such a partnership, the PNP can not go very far towards realizing its vision.
In fact, the PNP vision is fully aligned with its mission, which has been shaped by three successive Republic Acts or laws concerning the PNP. These laws are: RA 6975, as amended by RA 8551, and as further amended by RA 9708. They give a clear mandate to the PNP to enforce the law, prevent and control crimes, maintain peace and order, and ensure public safety and internal security with the active support of the community. Again, the support of the community is essential for the PNP to carry out its mandate and continuously pursue its mission.
The PNP mission lofty and noble but demanding and difficult can be pursued only by an organization firmly grounded on core values and a clear philosophy. That philosophy is framed by service, honor and justice; and the PNP core values are: MakaDiyos, makabayan, makatao, and makakalikasan. This philosophy and core values provide a solid anchor for the PNP as it develops and strengthens itself as an organization, and which can keep it safely and soundly grounded as it goes through the vicissitudes of pursuing its mission in trying to realize its vision by 2030.
