CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – The police’s region-wide campaign against the growing number of criminals using motorcycles to commit illegal acts has resulted in the seizure of at least 416 undocumented motorcycles in Central Luzon.
Central Luzon police director Chief Supt. Edgardo Ladao said mobile checkpoints were simultaneously put up in strategic areas in the region to flag down at random motorcycles whose drivers were asked to produce documents on their vehicles.
“This is part of our campaign to curb the growing number of crimes perpetrated by suspects using motorcycles,” he said.
He said the campaign, dubbed “Anti-Carnapping and Motorcycle Riding Suspects Strategy”, was introduced under the Police Integrated Patrol System (PIPS) of the Anti-Criminality Action Plan which focused on carnappers and motorcycle riding criminals.
Special teams from the Regional Highway Patrol Group, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Regional Public Safety Battalion and their provincial counterparts have been tasked to vigorously implement the campaign.
On the first campaign day last May 11, an initial 289 undocumented motorcycles were already seized. A total of 436 citation tickets were also issued to violators of traffic and other regulations.
Ladao vowed to even intensify the campaign in the coming days to weed out criminals using motorcycles to commit illegal acts
