The Philippine National Police (PNP) chief PGen. Guillermo Eleazar ordered all chiefs of police to assist the national government in its information dissemination campaign aimed at convincing more Filipinos to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The OPLAN BANDILLO, a community awareness and information dissemination program against criminal elements, is being implemented by the PNP.
In a PNP news release on Sunday (May 23), it said that OPLAN BANDILLO was eventually used to encourage people to observe the minimum health safety standard protocol since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Bilang dating PNP ASCOTF (Administrative Support on COVID-19 Task Force), nakita ko ang kahalagahan ng information dissemination para kumbinsihin ang kapulisan na magpa-bakuna,” said Eleazar.
“Every day, we monitored some of our personnel who initially declined being vaccinated changing their mind. And we attribute this to our aggressive information drive,” he said.
Currently, 84 percent of the PNP population now wanted to avail of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Aside from OPLAN BANDILLO, Eleazar said that the PNP social media accounts down to the local police stations can be used as a platform for the information campaign aimed at convincing more people to trust the vaccination program. – (PNP)/CF-rir
