200 cops trained as Board of Election Inspectors

GENERAL SANTOS CITY, May 10 (PIA)-- The Police Regional Office (PRO) 12 has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to train 200 cops to back the latter’s manpower resource in the May 2019 national and local elections. 

On May 1, PRO 12 regional director PBGen. Eliseo Tam Rasco directed at least 200 police personnel to be trained by Comelec as back up Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) during the polls.  

He said the more than 200 uniformed personnel have been trained to readily “assume” the role of BEIs in the event assigned personnel from the Department of Education will not be able to report. 

Rasco said it is important “to ensure the success rate of the elections” in case plans become awry.  

The training included the orientation on Comelec’s general instructions for the electoral boards and operational procedures of the vote counting machine or VCM. 

It also tackled “certain protocols and parameters” and participants were each required to operate the VCM “to test their readiness to carry out the tasks during election day.”  

Rasco said the training of PRO 12 personnel is part of police course of actions being taken jointly by PRO 12 and COMELEC 12 to ensure and achieve a fair and clean midterm polls. 

PRO 12 also partners with other government agencies like the Armed Forces of the Philippines, non-government organizations, and other poll watchdogs in the region. (PIA SarGen with reports from RPIO-PRO 12)

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