MEXICO, Pampanga – The provincial government continues the deployment of barangay tricycle patrols in its bid to strengthen community safety with the turnover of 71 units to three municipalities at the Mexico Evacuation Center on March 13.
Recipients in this third batch of trike patrols were 43 barangays in Mexico, 14 in Sta. Ana, and 14 in San Simon. Each patrol consists of 155cc motorcycles with back-to-back sidecars crafted by several Sustainable Livelihood Program Association fabricators as part of a livelihood program supported by the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
“This initiative is particularly timely, as recent operations uncovered warehouses serving as illegal cigarette manufacturing sites valued at millions of pesos,” noted Gov. Lilia “Nanay” Pineda during the turnover, referencing to the raids by police and the Bureau of Customs authorities on warehouses in Mexico, San Simon, and the City of San Fernando.
With the deployment of the trike patrol units, barangays will have more comprehensive and frequent monitoring of their areas, allowing for the prompt reporting of illegal activities to be immediately addressed by the inter-agency task force organized by the provincial government, in coordination with the PNP, BFP, CIDG, BOC, BIR, and other government agencies.
The barangays expressed their deep appreciation for the added support from the provincial government.
Attending the turnover ceremony were San Simon Mayor Anne Canlas, the municipal administrators of Sta. Ana and Mexico, DILG-Pampanga director Myra Moral-Soriano, Executive Assistant IV Ms. Angelina Blanco, members of the provincial board, and Liga ng mga Barangay president Dr. Benjamin Angeles.
Last month, 44 barangay trike patrol units were turned over to the Lubao LGU; and the municipalities of Floridablanca (33 units), Guagua (31 units), Sta. Rita (10 units), and Sasmuan (7 units),
To date, a total of 196 tricycle patrol vehicles have been distributed across the province. In addition to the patrol units, the governor is set to provide handheld radios to enable real-time monitoring and reporting of incidents within the barangays. Punto News Team
