MANILA, Philippines - In celebration of its 49th Anniversary, Metrobank awarded this year’s winners of the Metrobank Foundation Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT), The Outstanding Philippine Soldiers (TOPS), and the Country’s Outstanding Policemen in Service (COPS) in joint awarding ceremonies held recently at the Metrobank Plaza Auditorium, Makati City. Collectively called as Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Filipinos, they are recognized as exemplars in public service— educators as agents of literacy and knowledge, and policemen and soldiers as protectors of the people and the state.