Country’s leading PROs, convene to address Motorcycle Riding Suspects

Camp Vicente Lim- National Capital Region Police Office, Police Regional Office 4A and Regional Office 3 top officials convened today for the Joint Technical Working (TWG) Group Meeting on Strategic Initiatives against Motorcycle Riding Suspects (MRS) held at Multi Purpose Center, Camp BGen Vicente P Lim, Calamba City.

Considering the geographical proximity of the 3 regions and the prevalence of the MRS in their area, the meeting aimed to seek the need for more vigorous strategies on the operability, coordination, and initiative against Motorcycle Riding Suspect.

       The Chief, Regional Operations Division of the 3 regional offices presented their strategic initiatives and best practices against MRS. PRO 3 and PRO4A both has their sticker system strategy which they are currently implementing through their Oplan Clean Riders Alpha and Oplan Checkmate respectively.

A Unified Sticker System for the motorcycles was proposed wherein all 3 regions will have its color coding system to easily identify the issuing unit of the sticker based on its color.

“In spite of our efforts in formulating strategies to curb incidents perpetrated by these Motorcycle Riding Suspects, we still have to come up with a short and long term recommendations to fully address this problem. We will remove them slowly from the streets,” PRO3 Regional Director PCSUPT Amador V Corpus said.

 National Capital Region’s Best practice includes the installation of CCTV’s on streets in coordination with their Local Government Units and requiring business establishment to do the same. “While our efforts require the ‘whole of the government approach’, let us all take advantage of the use of modern technology such as CCTVs and the GPS,” Quezon City District Director PCSUPT Guillermo Lorenzo T Eleazar said.

In PRO4A, there was a decrease in 2017 on the Riding-in-Tandem incidents by 4.48% as compared to year 2016.

           “We are not being complacent by the decrease of our records in PRO4A, that is why we are intensifying our police operations and come-up with programs to address this incidents,” RD Aplasca said.

 The officers further encourage the support of the riding community making it a point that they have to be organized and educated to convert them to become force multipliers.

 Representatives from LTO and DPWH are also encouraged to join another series of meeting to be conducted at PRO3 and NCRPO respectively after which the TWG will present the final Joint OPLAN to the PNP National Headquarters for assessment and approval. (PIO- PRO4A/Cathy Lipton)