Interior and Local Government Secretary Juanito Victor Remulla has affirmed that the government is strengthening the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) mobility and patrol capabilities in line with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s directive to boost peace and order efforts nationwide
Remulla emphasized the need to address long-standing mobility gaps within the PNP at the blessing of newly acquired police equipment in Camp Crame, Quezon City,.
“The biggest problem of our PNP is mobility. For Metro Manila especially, we have more than 40,000 police officers but only 500 police vehicles,” said Remulla.
He added that the government is targeting a significant increase in resources in the next two years.
“So, our strategy with the rest of 2026 and 2027, we should increase our force readiness from the current value, we should add another 2,000 police vehicles for the Philippines,” Remulla said.
Among the newly procured equipment are 608 personnel carriers and transport vehicles, 438 light and heavy motorcycles, 4,989 protective gears, 322 drones, 505 mobile devices, and 3,155 firearms.
Remulla also announced that the PNP is projected to receive an additional 500 vehicles by January 2026 and 600 more by July to be deployed nationwide.
To improve communication capability, the DILG chief said around 2,000 cellular phones will be purchased before the year ends.
These devices integrate a body camera, cellphone, and radio in one unit.
“Before, the radios used by our police were not that efficient, and then cellphones were expensive. Now our POCs, it’s a body cam, it’s a cellphone, it’s a radio all at once. Very efficient way of communicating,” he said.
Remulla also commended the PNP for its role in the recent peace rally.
“Our police were very good yesterday, excellent work. We saw that there were no incidents, traffic management was good.”
