PHILIPPINE National Police chief, Director General Nicanor A. Bartolome has ordered his men to account for at least 300 wanted persons nationwide each month starting last October.

He said there will be a periodic performance audit starting this month to determine who among his men are at par with the job and who fall short of expectation.

Bartolome said he has ordered all 17 Police Regional Office and the different Provincial Police Offices to respectively arrest at least 150 and 50 wanted persons a month. On the other hand, the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group was told to account for at least 100 wanted criminals and persons every month.

Since crime, insurgency and domestic threats remain to be the PNP’s major concerns, Bartolome said they have laid down major strategies to address these issues, one of which is the program to arrest wanted persons which has been proven to be a major key in reducing crimes in the country.

“The accounting of wanted persons and service of warrants is one of our priorities. These include warrants of arrest on Moro Islamic Liberation Front and New People’s Army personalities charged for common crime,” Bartolome said.

From September 15, 2010 to date, nearly 23,000 wanted criminals were arrested by the PNP as authorities said  the more elusive ones will fall under their hands sooner or later with the help of a vigilant citizenry. Due to this, Bartolome ordered the sustained accounting of wanted persons and service of warrants of arrest shortly after he was installed as the 17th PNP chief by President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III last September 9.