24/08/2026
PBGEN. JESS MENDEZ PUTS COMMUNITY AT THE HEART OF PRO3 POLICING
Leadership is not simply about giving orders. It is about creating programs that bring police service closer to the people.
This is where PBGen. Jess Mendez is making his mark as Regional Director of Police Regional Office 3.
One clear example is the JBM Patrol System — Joint Police and Barangay Peacekeeping Action Teams Mobilization toward Crime Prevention and Detection in Central Luzon.
Launched under Mendez’s leadership, the program brings police personnel and barangay peacekeepers together in coordinated patrols, strengthened police visibility, faster reporting and community-based crime prevention.
The message is crystal clear - Mendez wants the people of Central Luzon to see their police, know their police and feel their presence.
This leadership style is consistent with the principles he declared when he assumed command of PRO3 — integrity, transparency, courage and accountability.
But Mendez is not relying on police officers alone. He is tapping the eyes, ears and presence of communities themselves.
Through the JBM Patrol System, barangay peacekeeping teams are being organized and mobilized as partners in preventing crime before it happens.
The initiative uses the Activate, Organize and Mobilize framework to maximize the capabilities of police, barangay officials and BPATs.
That is smart policing.
Central Luzon is too vast for police officers to be everywhere at the same time. But with community partners properly organized and mobilized, police visibility can reach deeper into neighborhoods.
And this is perhaps what distinguishes Mendez’s approach: he is not merely increasing police operations - he is building a policing system that makes communities part of the solution.
His leadership has also stressed discipline and accountability within the police ranks, showing that community trust must begin with a professional and responsible police organization.
For Mendez, the real test is not how impressive a program looks on paper.
It is whether a mother feels safer walking home, whether a barangay can quickly report a suspicious person, and whether a victim knows that police help is close at hand.
That is the real meaning of “Serbisyong Mabilis, Tapat, at Nararamdaman.”
And if JBM succeeds, it may become more than a patrol system.
It could become one of PBGen. Jess Mendez’s defining legacies in Central Luzon — policing with the people, for the people and closer to the people.