PAGADIAN
CITY (Dec. 4, 2018) - The Philippine National Police (PNP)
formally honored Police Chief Inspector Helen L Galvez, public information
officer (PIO) and spokesperson of Police Regional Office 9 as one of “10 most
outstanding policewomen of the Philippines”
PCI Helen L Galvez, currently the
Chief, PIO and Spokesperson of PRO-9 formally honored during simple ceremonies
held on Monday, December 3, 2018 at the PNP National Headquarters in Camp
Crame, Quezon City.
She received the coveted award along
with nine other female officers given by PNP together with the Zonta Club of
Makati-Paseo de Roxas Foundation Inc., ARMSCOR and Andres P. Tamayo Sr.
Foundation Inc.
PCI Galvez, a daughter of a farmer in
Zamboanga City, became a PNP commissioned officer through lateral entry in
2008. She also became the first female chief of police here in the region. She
has led her personnel in achieving multiple accomplishments in the campaign
against illegal drugs, piracy and wanted persons during her stints as the chief
of police in Labason, Zamboanga del Norte, and of the Zamboanga City Police
Station 4 under the Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO).
She has also established a strong
police-community relation and boosted the morale of her colleagues and force
multipliers in her area of operations. PCI Galvez has fostered cordial
media-relation and reinforced community awareness and mobilization when she was
assigned as the information officer of the ZCPO in 2015. One of her noteworthy accomplishments
was the neutralization of three high-value target personalities and arrest of
42 people when she led a “one-time, big-time” anti-drug operation on March 30,
2016. The operation also led to the recovery of firearms and stolen
motorcycles.
She also conceptualized the
community-based Healing in Oneness Policing through Education (HOPE) program
that aims to provide healing, education, and employment to drug surrenderers
through skills training and referral to concerned agencies after “Oplan Tokhang”
was implemented in July 2016. A total of 24 drug surrenderers were successfully
rehabilitated and have graduated from the pilot run of HOPE in March 2017 in
close coordination with the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of
Psychiatry of the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC).
PCI Galvez has strengthened the
delivery of a holistic intervention for surrenderers and maintained a strategic
monitoring system through a fully committed City Anti-Drug Abuse Council
(CADAC) in line with the PNP’s Project Double Barrel on Barangay drug clearing
operations.
Later in 2017, she oversaw the merging
of the different community-based drug rehabilitation programs of PNP’s HOPE
program, ZCMC-DOH’s Drug Users Treatment Enhancement, Rehabilitation and
Technical Education (DUTERTE) Program, CHO’s Cambio Vida and PDEA’s Masa Masid
Program. Twenty percent of the 10,113 drug surrenders in Zamboanga City have
been screened through the merged program and are ready for proper
rehabilitation.
PCI Galvez has also supervised the
community-based intervention to 21,367 drug surrenderers in the region when she
was designated as a member of the oversight committee of the Project Double
Barrel and PRO9 Recovery Wellness Program.
She has also initiated a series of
programs to keep the public informed on the activities of the command when she
assumed as the information officer of PRO-9 in the later part of 2017. The
activities also solicited public cooperation.
Galvez has excelled in combat shooting
skills and became a member of the PRO-9 shooting team. Director-General Ronald
Dela Rosa, then PNP chief, awarded Galvez as the Best Junior Police Commission
Officer for the year 2016 during the 116th Police Service Anniversary
Celebration.
Other policewomen who were named as The
Outstanding Policewomen of the Philippines (TOPWP) were Supt. Olivia A.
Sagaysay, NCRPO; SPO2 Sonia Agpalasin Corpuz, Maritime Group; SPO1 Jean Capili
Aguada, NCRPO; Chief Insp. Ruth B. Dizon, PRO-11;. Senior Insp. Rowena M
Jacosalem, PRO-11; SPO3 Maria Cristina Ila-San Juan, PRO-1: P01 Marjorie S.
Pablo, PRO-Calabarzon; 9. Senior Insp Jairilyn Camangian, PRO-1 and Senior
Insp. Liezl L. Abenilla, PRO-Calabazon.
The search for the TOPWP is an annual
competition meant to discover and recognize the efforts and achievements of
female members of the PNP. The annual competition is open to all active duty,
female members of the PNP with a rank up to Senior Superintendent.
The yearly award was initiated by Zonta
Club of Makati-Paseo de Roxas together with the PNP, which seeks to identify
heroic women in the police force, who are able to gain the support of the
community to prevent and solve crimes in their locality. (By JONG CADION with PRO9 PIO PR
and photos)
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