By Mar T. Supnad
The total number of Community
Investigative Service (CIS) agents, a group of civilians tapped by the Criminal
Investigation and Detection Group to help the CIDG in intelligence gathering,
monitoring of lawless elements and illegal activities has reached 20,000
nationwide, the top CIDG official revealed Thursday.
CIDG director Samuel D. Pagdilao,
Jr.said the confidential information being provided by the CIS is a
big boost to the CIDG’s campaign in ridding the country of wanted persons,
neutralization of organized crime groups, and other high profile cases.
“These force multipliers (CIS
civilian agents) played a major role in peace-keeping efforts, intelligence
gatherings and monitoring of criminal activities and in solving high profile
crimes,” said Pagdilao.
Aside from providing
intelligence information, CIS members are also active in providing emergency
assistance in times of calamities and typhoons, earning the praise of the
public and the PNP
hierarchy.
Owing to budgetary
constraints, limited resources and lack of personnel in fulfilling its main
task as the PNP’s main investigative and detection body, the CIDG leadership
under Pagdilao created the CIS to help the PNP in its campaign against
criminalities.
Pagdilao admitted that the police
needs the community in its fight against crime the same way the community needs
the police to protect the people from crime.
And this has become successful with
the series of neutralization of top wanted persons, the apprehension of
criminals hiding in the community and remote areas, making CIDG more effective
to its mandate.
The CIS was a brainchild of Pagdilao
who is a lawyer.
And no matter how busy the CIDG
director is, his men said, he always finds time to personally attend the
oath-taking of new members, giving encouraging remarks, a big morale
boosting not only to the CIDG personnel but also to the CIS agents
themselves.
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