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Mandatory retirement age for cops 57, teachers 60
By Nidz Godino
“This bill proposes to increase compulsory retirement age of PNP ,Philippine National Police officers and personnel from 56 to 57 years old, similar to Armed Forces of the Philippines ,AFP, to ensure continuity and stability in the leadership and excellence in PNP,” Sen. Imee Marcos said in explanatory note Senators are pushing for measures to extend retirement age for police officers from 56 to 57 years while reducing retirement age for teachers from 65 to 60 years.
Marcos filed Senate Bill 2758, amending section 39 of Republic Act 6975, otherwise known as “Department of the Interior and Local Government act of 1990.”
At present, mandatory retirement age of police officers is set at 56 years.
Marcos said there are proposals to raise police age of compulsory retirement due to reasons: increased life expectancy rates based on various studies, extending police officers’ retirement age will ensure more experienced men at helm of PNP and members of police force aged 57 are still agile and physically fit to accomplish their duties, among others.
Undersecretary for Police Affairs Isagani Nerez, in his speech before Pangasinan Police Provincial Office earlier, also said “proposed increase by year of PNP retirement age will allow law enforcers to serve public further.”
Meanwhile, Senate President Francis Escudero filed Senate Bill 58, act lowering compulsory retirement age of employees of Department of Education (DepEd) from 65 years to 60 years.
If enacted into law, Escudero said proposed legislation will benefit hundreds and thousands of retirable DepEd personnel, both teaching and non-teaching, who would want to spend prime of their lives doing occupations other than their usual functions in government.
“Present system at DepEd needs skills updating and professional advancement of their personnel in order that services rendered at the department would be restructured and modernized yet perpetual,” he noted.
Escudero said measure shall also open doors of opportunities to young teachers and non-teaching aspirants for jobs at education department.
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