Outgoing Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil on Friday called to raise the retirement age of police officers to 60.
Section 39 of Republic Act 6975, or the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Act, states that officers from and under the Interior Department must retire upon reaching the age of 56.
“The retirement age, I hope it reaches the age of 60. We’ll go for 60. That’s what we want because it’s more expensive to go to school now,” Marbil said in an interview with reporters in Camp Crame.
“We prefer more specialized, longer commanders on the ground, not changeable,” he added.
Then PNP officer-in-charge LtGen. Archie Gamboa previously raised the idea back in 2019, citing the two years added to the basic education curriculum in the K-12 program.
Interior Secretary Juanito Victor Remulla likewise suggested raising the retirement age of police officials to 60.
“All their expertise, all their contacts, all procedures, the institutional memory is missing… So, it is better, I think, that we make them stay a little longer so that there is more stability within the PNP,” Remulla said.
