THE QCPD director had denied giving Gonzales a ‘special treatment’ when he allowed him to air his side in a press conference in Camp Karingal.

He said that they did not file any case against the accused due to lack of a complainant. However, he apologized to the public and admitted he regretted holding a press con with the ex-cop.

“I really regret that press conference. I apologize to the Filipino people for those actions because those are decisions made in a very short span of time,” Brig. Gen. Torre said.

Prior to that, Gen. Acorda had commented on the ‘‘Three-Minute Response Time’ (TMRT) of the QCPD and said he wants the QCPD ‘best practice’ replicated nationwide. s the QCPD ‘best practice’ replicated nationwide.

Even the 17 Metro Manila mayors leading the Regional Peace and Order Council have been impressed by the demonstration of the TMRT at the QCPD headquarters in Camp Karingal that San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora, RPOC chairman, had suggested it should be also done by the other police districts in Metro Manila to further improve the peace and order situation in the country’s premier region.

Brig. Gen. Torre conceptualized the TMRT project using all available PNP technology shortly after being designated as QCPD director on August 8 last year.

The QCPD at present has 84 body-worn cameras and 170 radios which are all fully functioning. Each of the 17 QCPD stations have been given four BWC units each while the rest are being used by those assigned at Camp Karingal.

“It’s just a matter of training our personnel on the proper use, utilization and care of these valuable pieces of equipment as I really believe that the problem lies on the people, not the equipment,” Brig. Gen. Torre had told the Journal Group.

“With all sincerity, I believe I have developed commanders who can command literally and figuratively. There’s a battle raging everyday kaya dapat maintindihan ng commanders natin what is good for them,” he added.

He added that it took him three months to set up their ICCC while requiring all QCPD station commanders to see to it that they are the first to be very knowledgeable on how to use their PNP-issued BWCs and radio equipment.

The official said he is banking on real-life experience and thus had made it a point to make sure his officers and men are trained on how to use a police radio or a BWC once these equipment are issued to them.

It has been common knowledge that many officers in Central Luzon were found to have no training at all and could not properly handle almost half of the nearly 3,000 radio equipment procured by the PNP for the 31st ASEANAPOL Summit and Related Meetings held in Clark, Pampanga in 2017.

In the latest incident in Malabon City where a group of local policemen were accused of shooting to death a teenager they mistook for a murder suspect, senators have discovered that the cop wearing a Body-Cam during the operation was actually not fully trained to operate the gadget.

“I am only ensuring that we can respond immediately, within 3-minutes exactly in real-time, real-life situations. How? By seeing to it that our men are fully efficient in using pieces of equipment given to us by the PNP leadership,” he said..

Since last January, the QCPD District Tactical Operations Center has been sending its patrollers to respond to emergency calls being received by the Q.C Helpline 122. Since the year started, the thousands of concerns and calls for emergencies forwarded to the Q.C. Helpline 122 was promptly responded to by the QCPD within three-minutes.

He also emphasized that complaints regarding poor signal should be set aside. “Hindi totoo yun kung ma-uutilize lang, kung lahat aayusin, kung lahat gagamitin, The problem is how to utilize the equipment.

“The problem is pag ang opisyal, hindi alam kung papano i-operate ang BWC o ang radio kasi pag sinabi ng isang patrolman o sarhento na sira ang mga ito, yun na ang magiging paniniwala nila.
experience nga ako na yung ibang pulis, hindi-alam kung papano i-turn on ang Body-Cam o gumamit ng hand-held radio,” he added.

The QCPD’s TMTR is utilizing available drones, the BWCs and hand-radios issued to its mobile crew patrollers, members of its Tactical Motorcycle Riding Unit and beat patrollers who are serving as their everyday ‘first responders’ while assigned in fixed points or nearby areas in Q.C.

Apart from being connected to the Q.C. Government’s Helpline 122, the QCPD communication center has also linked up with the Metro Manila Development Authority in order to quickly assist the MMDA in emergency situations which need police help.