Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales of Manila told Metro Manila police at a spirituality seminar that they are "one with civilians" in promoting respect for human rights and for the country.

Commissioned officers were among the 100 Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) who attended the April 27 seminar. It was titled "Kaganapan ng Buhay, Kaganapan ng Bayan (fullness of life, fullness of nation)."

Another 100 participants comprised mainly civilian staff of the NCRPO and laypeople who have had contact with police through involvement with Manila archdiocese's San Lorenzo Ruiz Lay Formation Center (LAYFORCE). The center conducted the seminar at St. Joseph Chapel, inside the National Police headquarters compound in Camp Crame, just north of the capital.

The liturgy, prepared by the PNP chaplaincy, included prayers led by a Protestant pastor, a Catholic priest and an imam, a Muslim prayer leader.

Police, Cardinal Rosales said, tread a "thin line between military service and citizen involvement," Cardinal Rosales told the audience, which included religious ministers o

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