Republic of the Philippines Department of the Interior and Local Government NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION Makati City

PNP EXAMINATION ANNOUNCEMENT

The National Police Commission, pursuant to its constitutional mandate to administer and control the
Philippine National Police (PNP), will conduct nationwide the
PNP ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS
on
April 25, 2010 and October 24, 2010
The PNP ENTRANCE EXAMINATION is open to all Filipino citizens who possess the age, height and
educational requirements as provided herein, as well as to Police Officers I (P01) whose appointments are
temporary for lack of appropriate eligibility. Those who pass this examination are conferred by the National Police
Commission (NAPOLCOM) the PNP Entrance eligibility which is appropriate for appointment to the rank of P01,
as prescribed under Sec. 30 of Republic Act No. 6975, as amended by Republic Act No. 8551.

i---·------PLEASE-READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. L DO NOT APPLY IF

YOU ARE NOT QUAL._IF_IE_D_" ----'
I" DATE OF EXAMINATION: April 25, 2010 October 24, 2010

II. PERIOD OF FILING February 1 -March 15, 2010 August 16 -September 30, 2010

ONLY DULY ACCOMPLISHED APPLICATION FORMS WITH ALL THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS FILED PERSONALLY
AND RECEIVED BY THE NAPOLCOM REGIONAL OFFICE ON OR BEFORE THE DEADLINE FOR FILING SHALL BE
ACCEPTED.
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IN VIEW OF RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS, THE REGIONAL OFFICE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF
EXAMINEES IT WILL ACCOMMODATE. ACCEPTANCE OF APPLICATIONS SHALL BE ON A "FIRST COME, FIRST-
SERVED" BASIS
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, AND, UPON DUE NOTICE, MAY BE STOPPED EVEN AHEAD OF THE DEADLINE. I
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III. TEST San Femando City Region 5 Legazpi City Region 11 Davao City
CENTERS
Region 1
Region 2 Tuguegarao City Region 6 Iloilo City Region 12 Koronadal
City
Region 3 City of San Femando Region 7 Cebu City CARAGA 8utuan City
Region 4A Calamba City Region 8 Tacloban City CAR Baguio City
Region 48 Occidental Mindoro Region 9 Zamboanga City NCR Makati City
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan Region 10
Region 4B Cagayan de Oro City

WHAT TO FILE
1. An Application Form (NAPOLCOM Form 1-A) and Index Card, duly accomplished by the applicant and two (2)
recent and identical 1" x 1" ID pictures (in color) with white background and complete name tag (indicate rank
before the first, middle and last names, if PNP member).
2. Police Examination Fee: Four Hundred Pesos (P400.00)

- L _ NO OTHER FEES SHALL BE COLLECTED.

1. One (1) legal-size window envelope with nine pesos (PS.OO) worth of mailing stamps.
2. Transcript of Scholastic Record (with Special Order issued by CHED) or Diploma from CHEDaccredited
schools, state universities and colleges.
3. Birth Certificate issued by the Local Civil Registrar (LCR) or by the main and field offices of the National
Statistics Office (NSO)
4. For a P01 with temporary appointment, a certified true copy of Attested Appointment, Plantilla Appointment or
Special Order.

r--~examinee who-fails iiian exam or after being admitted to take said exam,-filifs to take it for one--~I reason or
another, need not resubmit the requirements should he/she apply again for the same exam in I the same exam center. The1['

applicant will only have to: (a) submit the ADMISSION SLIP of the last exam I i applied for; (b) fill out a new application form and index
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card with 10 pictures; and, (c) pay the ! examination fee. i
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V. WHERE TO GET APPLICATION FORMS AND INDEX CARDS

Application Forms (NAPOLCOM Form 1-A) and Index Cards can be obtained for FREE at the
NAPOLCOM National Capital Region (NCR) Office located at Jacinta Building II, #1840 Sta. Rita
S1., Guadalupe Nuevo, EDSA, Makati City, at any NAPOLCOM Regional Office nationwide, or may be
downloaded from the NAPOLCOM website at www.napolcom.gov.ph. These may also be
REPRODUCED using the original size of the Application Form and Index Card.

VI. HOW TO FILE

An applicant may file his/her application, together with all the required supporting documents,
PERSONALLY at any NAPOLCOM Regional or Provincial Office where he/she intends to take the
examination. APPLICATIONS RECEIVED THRU POSTAL MAIL SHALL NOT BE PROCESSED.

VII. NOTIFICATION OF EXAMINATION

A qualified applicant shall be issued a Notice of Admission on the day he/she files hislher
application for the examination. However, to confirm the status of said application, he/she may verify
from the NAPOLCOM Regional Office where said application was filed, or avail of the TEXT
NAPOLCOM Facility by texting in the following:

NAPOLCOM space EXAMLOC space LAST NAME I FIRST NAME I MIDDLE NAME
and send to: a) 2256 for Globe and Touchmobile b) 6808for Smart and Talk 'n Text c) 2269 for
Sun Cellular

VIII. EXAMINATION COVERAGE

The three-hour examination consists of 200 multiple choice items. The examination covers
the following subject areas:

General Information
• Philippine Constitution
• Philippine History (Significant Events, People and Places)
• Philippine Govemment (Structures and Functions)
• Laws and Jurisprudence (Functions and Empowerment)
• Five (5) Pillars of the Criminal Justice System (CJS)
• • Current Events (Social Awareness and Value Judgment) Verbal Reasoning
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Grammar Quantitative Reasoning
• Basic Concepts
• Problem-Solving Skills

Logical Reasoning
• Induction
• Deduction
• Synthesis

IX. WHAT TO WEAR ON EXAMINATION DAY

 PLAIN WHITE T-SHIRT / POLO SHIRT, DARK PANTS and SHOES.

X. WHAT TO BRING DURING THE EXAMINATION

1. Notice of Admission
2. Pencil No.2
3. Any valid identification card with picture

r--WARNING:F1rearrns shoUldtle deposited outSIde the-examfnationarea. -CeiiPhon-es. pagers-or-any two-:-1 !

way radio set, calculators, review materials, explosives, or deadly weapons are strictly prohibited. i Violation
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of this rule shall disqualify an examinee from taking the examination or shall result to the . L________
nullification of his/her examination.

XI. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION STANDARDS I--~~----PNP ENTRANCE EXAMINATION l

APPLICANT I AGE ! HEIGHT I EDUCATIONAL I

! CLASSIFICATION! I ! ATIAINMENT I I CIVILIAN Not more than I MALE : 1.62 meters iBachelor's

Degre~
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i 30 years old i FEMALE: 1.57 meters L~

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I **NAPOLCOM MC No. 2007-009. Sec.? #4 provides that the minimum height requirement for PNP applicants who are
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members of indigenous communities shall be 1.52 m for males and 1.45 m for females. For examination purpose, they are
required to submit a CertifICation of their trool I membership issued by the Main Office of the National Commission on
Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) or Office on Muslim Affairs (OMA), or a Height I I Waiver issued bythe NAPOLCOM. _.-J

XII. NOTIFICATION OF RESULTS:

The nationwide list of successful examinees will be posted at the NAPOLCOM Central Office
located at 371 Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City and at the NAPOLCOM website. Similarly, a
Regional List will be posted in each of the NAPOLCOM Regional Offices.

For inquiries, examinees may log on to the NAPOLCOM web address at www.napolcom.gov.ph.
To avail of the TEXT NAPOLCOM facility, the examinee must text in the following:

NAPOLCOM space EXAMRSLT space APPLICATION NO. or NAPOLCOM space EXAMRSLT

space LAST NAME I FIRST NAME I MIDDLE NAME and send to: a) 2256 for Globe and
Touchmobile b) 6808 for Smart and Talk 'n Text c) 2269 for Sun Cellular

EXAMINATION RESULTS -Report of Rating (RR) will be mailed to the examinee's mailing address.
Verification may be made with the Examination Division, Personnel and Administrative Service (PAS},
NAPOLCOM Central Office. An examinee who passed the test but did not receive his/her RR may request for
issuance of a certification from the same office, upon payment of One Hundred Fifty Pesos (~150.00). For
requests sent through postal mail, payment shall be in money order form payable to the National Police
Commission, # 371 Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City
1200.

THE EXAMINATION DIVISION, PERSONNEL ANDADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE, NAPOLCOM CENTRAL

OFFICE WILLNOT ENTERTAIN REQUESTS FORCHANGE ORMODIFICATION OFAN EXAMINEE'S DATE OF
BIRTH AS REFLECTED IN HIS/HER REPORT OF RATING, APPLICATION FORM AND INDEXCARD.

XIII. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

It is understood that all data written by the applicant on the Application Form and Index Card,
including information contained in the required submitted documents are considered TRUE AND
CORRECT and shall be treated as official data. AN APPLICANT'S QUALIFICATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO
FINAL REVIEW AND VERIFICATION BY THE EXAMINATION DIVISION, PERSONNEL AND
 ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE (PAS). NAPOLCOM CENTRAL OFFICE. APPLICANTS MAY BE
REQUIRED TO PRESENT ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS, IF DEEMED NECESSARY. IF IT IS
ESTABLISHED THAT THE EXAMINEE DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR THE EXAMINATION, HIS/HER TEST
RESULT SHALL BE CANCELLED I INVALIDATED.

THE NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION HAS A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT KEEPS TRACK
OF THE ANSWER PATTERNS OF EXAMINEES. IF TWO OR MORE EXAMINEES HAVE A HIGH
PERCENTAGE OF SIMILAR ANSWER PATTERNS, THIS MAY RESULT IN THE INVALIDATION OF
THEIR TEST RESULTS.

the five pillars of the criminal justice system include:

1.law enforcement

2.investigation and prosecution

3.the courts

4.the correctional system

5.the community

Each and every single one is broken and will soon crumble under the burden of patronage politics and
governance going haywire, bringing the whole system down:

• Pillar #1 - Law Enforcement: There are very good and well meaning people in the PNP. Some
of them are close friends of mine. But, God knows, the whole system is very suspect of
protectionism, graft and corruption. How else will the saying exist: "Hayahay pa's pulis."
• Pillar #2 - Prosecution: (Same as #1. "Hayahay pa's piscal.")
• Pillar #3 - Coursts: Plain and simple judges and judgements can be bought.
• Pillar #4 - Corrections: If you have the resources, you'll get your way and do whatever you
want to do in the correctionals.
• Pillar #5 - Community: The community does not care anymore for "legal or illegal". Look
around you, there is always something illegal going on - with no fail! The community does
not care.

The CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM in

the Country:
- dysfunctional system, or effective crime deterrent?

By: atty benji

In Bulan, or in Sorsogon, in particular, do you think criminal justice system is OK?
How about the police? The Prosecutor? The Court? And the Jail or Correctional?

I would recall a year ago during the debate re, abolition of the death penalty law in the country, President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo believed that “strengthening the five (5) pillars of the criminal justice system is a
more effective crime deterrent than the death penalty law”.

Reinforced by her alter ego’s statement, “So if we are able to address these five pillars of the criminal justice
system, this is the most, more effective deterrent than capital punishment itself. That is the point of the
President,” Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said.

As an ordinary citizen, I would categorically swear that as long as there are so called SCALAWAGS IN
UNIFORMS (police or NBI), Corrupt and Biased Public Prosecutors (fiscal), HOODLUMS IN ROBES
(judge or justice) and inefficient and substandard Correctional system manned by rascal government men, we
can all conclude that criminal justice system in this country is totally dysfunctional and ineffective channel of
justice, and would not be a crime deterrent as well.

When a criminal justice in a particular country is rotten and decomposing (forgive the word), there would be
no end to the victims of injustice/s to cry out loud for justice until the end of time, “Justi-is sabi nila, dahil
bulok ang sistema!”

What is a Criminal Justice? – It is the system of practices, and organizations, used by national and local
governments, directed at maintaining social control, deter and controlling crime, and sanctioning those who
violate laws with criminal penalties. The primary agencies charged with these responsibilities are law
enforcement (police and prosecutors), courts, defense attorneys and local jails and prisons which administer
the procedures for arrest, charging, adjudication and punishment of those found guilty. When processing the
accused through the criminal justice system, government must keep within the framework of laws that protect
individual rights. The pursuit of criminal justice is, like all forms of “justice,” “fairness” or “process,”
essentially the pursuit of an ideal.

There are actually five (5) pillars of criminal justice system, as follows; (1.) Community, (2.) The Law
Enforcement, (3.) The Prosecution Service, (4.) The Courts, (5.) The Correctional Institution.

If one of these pillars is dysfunctional, “wala tayong maasahan na hustisya!”

The five (5) pillars of the Philippine Criminal Justice System have important roles to play in the investigation,
prosecution and dispensation of justice of the alleged offenders or felons.

The first pillar is the COMMUNITY ( e.g., People & People’s Organizations). It refers to institutions,
government, and non-government agencies and people’s organizations that provide care and assistance to the
victims or offended party, during and after the onset of a victims’ rights case. The “community” has a
significant role to assume in all the phases of judicial involvement of offender as well as the protection
process: the prevention of abuse, cruelty, discrimination and exploitation, assistance of offenders who enter
the criminal justice system and the acceptance of the offenders upon his reintegration into the community,,,
after he goes out of Correctional.

The second pillar is LAW ENFORCEMENT (e.g. PNP, NBI, PDEA, etc.) It involves government agencies
charged with the enforcement of penal laws. It is primarily responsible for the investigation and
determination whether an offense has been committed, and where needed, the apprehension of alleged
offenders for further investigation of the third pillar,,, Prosecution Service.

The PROSECUTION SERVICE (Public Prosecutor or Fiscal) refers to the National Prosecution Service
(NPS). The NPS is mandated to investigate and prosecute penal violations. It collates, evaluates evidence in
the preliminary inquest investigation and dismisses or files the case in court as indicated.

The Public Attorneys Office or private defense counsel, on the other hand, serves as the defender of offender
who is charged before the court and unable to hire the service of the retained lawyer.
The fourth pillar is the COURT (MTC, RTC) )which refers to the MTC and Regional Trial Courts designated
to handle and try the case and issue judgment after trial.

The fifth pillar is the CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM (NBP, CIW, BJMP) . It refers to institutions mandated to
administer both correctional and rehabilitation programs for the offenders. These programs develop the
offenders or convicts’ abilities and potentials and facilitate their re-integration into the community and
normal family life.

The rehabilitation and recovery process involves the support of government agencies, non-government
organizations and most importantly the family and community so that the offender as well as the offended
can heal and recover in order to be able to cope and rebuild their lives.

NB: the fifth pillar is formerly called PRISON or PENITENTIARY, it is now called a CORRECTIONAL
(e.g. Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong) because the purpose of the law is to correct and
rehabilitate the convict as productive citizen of the country, after he goes out of prison, as he will commingle
or return to the community to live a new life as a normal person, not anymore as an ex-convict.

Suppose1: the people (family of the victim) refuses to cooperate in the investigation of the case, then the
police would not be as effective to perform his job to arrest the suspect, thus, the first pillar of criminal justice
system would be ineffective or dysfunctional.

Suppose2: the people (or family of the victim) or victim herself fully cooperated in the investigation of the
case that led to the apprehension of the suspect, but later on the police, thru negligence or bribery, has just
allowed the suspect go free and evade arrest, thus the second pillar of criminal justice system is also
dysfunctional or rotten.

Suppose3: both the victim and police had worked together closely in the investigation, and actual
apprehension of the suspect, however during the preliminary investigation stage conducted by the fiscal, who
acted partially and moved for the dismissal of the case due to alleged lack of probable cause, however upon
inquiry it was found out later that he did receive a bribe money from the suspect in exchange of a favorable
resolution, thus, the third pillar of criminal justice system would also be dysfunctional and decomposing as
well.

Suppose4: the victim, police and the fiscal have done their work par excellence and were able to present a
strong case in court, but judge, who handled and tried the case, renders a decision acquitting the accused as he
did receive monetary consideration from the other party, or thru “pakikisama”, or he is a “compare” of the
accused, thus, the fourth pillar of criminal justice system is likewise dysfunctional.

Suppose5: the accused was finally convicted via fair and impartial trial, thru the cooperation of the
aforementioned pillars, thereby giving justice to the victim of the crime, but when the accused was formally
delivered and turned over to the correctional institution to serve his sentence, but instead of being corrected
and rehabilitated therein, said convict was tortured and man handled, etc. (thru mental & physical torture),
thus, the last pillar of criminal justice system is also dysfunctional.

To be able to strengthen an effective criminal justice system, all these pillars must perform and deliver their
respective job par excellence in the realization of justice. Failure of any of the pillars aforementioned to
function well will lead us into chaos and other forms of unrest in the community, because the government
that is supposed to be the bulwark and vanguard of peoples’ right will serve nothing but a traitor to its own
people, unable to protect the rights and interest of its citizens.

Last year, the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)- a Hongkong based, launched a new report describing
how the rotten criminal justice system in the Philippines fails to deliver justice to its people and contributes to
the widespread human rights violations in the country.
“The criminal justice system of the Philippines is rotten”, describes how the police and courts fail to
investigate and solve various human rights violations because of the lack of sincerity, despite well-established
institutions on papers. It calls for the government to reform the criminal justice system and fulfill the
promises it made to the Filipinos in the laws.
The report analyses why the criminal justice system in the Philippines fails to function. It identifies as
including “command irresponsibility”, the non-existent witness protection programme, the bias of state
officers towards victims and their families, and the irregularities in investigation and prosecution .

Flawed and misguided criminal investigations.

The police are the first and biggest obstacle to victims and their families obtaining justice in the Philippines.
Where family members and witnesses come forward, they often find that police investigations contradict their
versions of incidents. Police investigators sometimes make premature pronouncements about the motive for a
killing and its cause, flatly rejecting alternative suggestions, particularly where state officers or persons
allegedly connected to them are among the possible suspects. And, due to existence of scalawags in uniform,
kotong cops, hulidap cops, that unless these scalwags in uniforms are eradicate, if not obliterated, the
Mamang Pulis and Aleng Pulis ambitious project of P/Director General Sonny Razon would only mean
nothing but just a scrap piece of garbage program which cannot be complied with in good faith by his men, or
else, it will remain as a joke like, “Mamang Pulis-Pulis T…… Matulis.”

Non-existent victim and witness protection.

Most victims of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines have had threats on their lives beforehand; some
already having survived earlier attacks. Those who seek protection are frustrated by the unresponsiveness of
state agencies that supposedly have obligations to assist in such instances. Many end up dead.

The failure of the witness protection program must be attributed squarely to the rotten condition of its
implementing agency, the Department of Justice. Public prosecutors, who are its officers, have also failed in
their duty to refer witnesses for inclusion in the protection programme. Even in the most serious cases of
extrajudicial killing, torture and disappearance, they are not known to have made recommendations and
applications for protection.
Ineffectual and biased prosecutors
Public Prosecutors make little or no attempt to conceal bias in their handling of criminal complaints.

The extent of bias is again best illustrated by the head of the Department of Justice himself. Secretary (Raul)
Gonzalez has gone out of his way to defend the government by flatly rejecting legitimate grievances about
the inability of the authorities to stop extrajudicial killings, referring to them as “black propaganda.” He has
adopted the language of the military and insinuated that unseen forces have taken advantage of the situation
as “one way to destabilize the government” by way of creating lawlessness within the country, thereby
putting the government into shame in the international community: as if the government was not sufficiently
adept at creating lawlessness and putting itself to shame.

That Secretary Gonzalez feels safe in making open presumptions about the guilt or innocence of persons
lodging criminal complaints and indicating that the extent of assistance given by his department depends
upon what conclusions are drawn by its officers as to the merits of the complainant rather than the complaint
speaks volumes about the rot at all levels of the criminal justice system of the Philippines.

Labeling “enemies”

Under section 14(2) of the Constitution of the Philippines “the accused shall be presumed innocent until the
contrary is proved.” In practice the public labeling of accused persons or victims as “communist fronts,”
“destabilizers,” “enemies of the state,” or “terrorists” negates this presumption and allows officials to do
away with due process. The double standards in implementation of laws are most obvious in cases where
such labels are applied. The use of labels also exposes victims, their families and colleagues to the possibility
of further violence, and denies them any hope of protection. Once a person or organization has been labeled
“leftist” or “enemy” then there is no possibility of safety. Whatever they may or may not have done, they are
in a special category of persons and groups guilty by suspicion, for who the ordinary laws and procedures, to
the limited extent they operate for everyone else, are suspended.

JUDGE must be impartial and free from influence, like a Lady Justice (na may piring at may hawak- hawak
na timbangan).
For instance, we have hoodlums in robes… who based their decisions not on facts and evidence presented
during the trial but on some other considerations such as, camaraderie with the litigants, brother or sister in
the law fraternity/sorority, compare, or thru “pakikisama”…. or the worst is when the decision is rendered in
favor of the highest bidder…

Maybe, President GMA was correct in saying that “these five pillars of criminal justice system to become
effective as crime deterrent, the same must be strengthen, and be addressed properly”,

….. otherwise, we will all go to the dogs!

……or better still, in the quest for justice, the victims will resort to the law of the jungle in order to get the
justice they deserve, (or the law of survival of the fittest, according to german philosopher friedrich nitzche,
that “only the strong must survive, the weaklings must be eliminated”)

GOD BLESS US ALL…..

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ANYONE WHO COMMITS ANY FORM OF EXAMINATION IRREGULARITY, SUCH AS
CHEATING, IMPERSONATION, PERJURY,ORVIOLATIONOFEXAMINATION RULES,
ETC.,SHALLBE DEALTWITH ADMINISTRATIVELY AND/OR CRIMINALLY. IN ADDITION,
HISIHER EXAMINATION RESULTS AND ELIGIBILITY SHALLBE INVALIDATED.

Confidential report on examination-related illegal activities may be reported to:

Examination Division, Personnel and Administrative Service NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION
#371 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City 1200 Telephone No.: (02) 899-00-85 or ANY
NAPOLCOM REGIONAL OFFICE