MANILA, Philippines — Interior and Local Government Secretary Juanito Victor Remulla on Tuesday bared that trimming the number of generals in the "top heavy" Philippine National Police (PNP) is one of the recommendations he made to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as part of his "four-month process" to reorganize the police force.

The chief executive, Remulla noted, was "very accepting" of the idea.

"The reforms are recommendatory four months from now. We're working together with the UP College of Public Administration to get complete details on how we can reform it, especially the structure because the PNP is top-heavy now. I think we have 133 generals. I think I want it whittled down to 25 to flatten the organization. So, those are some of the recommendations that we're gonna make," he said in a Palace briefing.

''There are a lot of generals without commands. We have APC -- area police commands, and there are no personnel below them. So, we have many redundancies we need to trim down. It's a 32-year-old law we need to revisit again," he added.