(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has suspended the body mass index requirement for policemen to be promoted.
In a statement, PNP Chief Guillermo Eleazar said in deciding to suspend the implementation of PNP Memorandum Circular 2020-029, “we took into consideration the balance between the workload of all our personnel in this time of pandemic and the need for them to comply with this Memorandum Circular just to be promoted.”
“Nasa panahon tayo ng pandemya kung saan nangangailangan ng malasakit at pang-unawa sa aming mga tauhan, lalo na ang libu-libo naming personnel na naatasang magpatupad ng minimum public health safety protocol 24 oras (We are in a pandemic when people need to be more understanding of our personnel, especially of our thousands of personnel tasked to implement minimum public health safety protocols for 24 hours),” Eleazar said.
Eleazar said the suspension was only temporary, and the memo would be implemented “kapag unti-unti nang bumabalik sa normal ang lahat (if everything starts going back to normal).”
On June 29, the PNP Directorate for Personnel and Records Management (DPRM) recommended the suspension of the requirement.
The DPRM made the recommendation in response to a petition by a group of policemen.
