Functions:
2. Protect the country from foreign aggression and internal subversion.
3. To advance the national aims and interest.
4. To perform such duties as the President may direct.
The Republic Act 6975 entitled An Act Establishing the Philippine National
Police (PNP) under a reorganized Department of the Interior and Local
Government and Other Purposes, as amended by RA 8551 Philippine National
Police Reform and Reorganization Act of 1998 and further amended by RA
9708, states that their functions include:
1. Law enforcement.
2. Maintaining peace and order.
3. Preventing and investigating crimes and bringing offenders to justice.
4. Exercising the vested powers from the Philippine Constitution and pertinent
laws.
5. Detaining an arrested person for a period not beyond what is prescribed by
law.
6. Implementing pertinent laws and regulations on firearms and explosives
control.
Training Module on the Right to Mental Health for the Security Sector
1. To secure the sovereignty of the state and the integrity of the national
territory.
7. Supervising and controlling the training and operations of security agencies.
The security sectors such as military and police officers are exposed to
traumatic events as part of their occupational roles.
Objectives:
This project aims to cultivate a healthy workplace by mitigating job burnout in
the security sector and at the same time focusing on mental health as a human
right. It capacitates the security sector to attend behavioral emergencies and
crisis. It aims to:
a.) Promote staff development by educating the service providers of the
concept of mental health and work-related stress
b.) Improve productivity by helping the service providers deal with work-related
stress particularly job burnout through evidence-based interventions
c.) Enhance the well-being of the service providers to contribute to
organizational growth
d.) Train the service providers to handle crime victims in the aftermath of
behavioral emergencies, crisis events, and mental health crisis
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