CABANATUAN CITY – “Slow down.”
“If your car is tinted please open your windows.”
“If you are riding a motorcycle, please remove your helmet.”
Nueva Ecija cops would now regularly ask drivers taking the busy roads do these as part of its new anti-criminality project which was launched in this city on Tuesday.
Senior Supt. Roberto Aliggayu, Nueva Ecija police director who led the launching along the busy streets of Burgos, Mabini ang Del Pilar here, said “the Public Safety Zone(PSZ) project will thwart criminality.”
“Sometimes we do not know what’s happening inside these vehicles so we should be able to at least peep into the vehicle and see who’s the driver and who’s the occupant,” Aliggayu said.
“Notably, unlike the traditional police’s anti-criminality checkpoints that are placed at random along national roads. Motorcycle riders are usually checked of documents even as car drivers are requested to open compartments, but those who will pass PSZs only have to slow down and make their faces visible throughout the zones,” he said.
The project was launched a few hours before a bus bombing in Makati City that killed at least five people and wounded several others, and more than a week after the burnt body of car-dealer Venson Evangelista was found along an irrigation canal in Barangay Buliran this city.
However, Aliggayu said the project was supposed to kick off early January but was bumped off due to security preparations during the Christmas season.
PSZs will be manned by an unstated number of policemen at least two hours a day, Aliggayu said. Motorists will be greeted with traffic advisories.
Aliggayu said police stations in other Nueva Ecija towns and cities will replicate the scheme.
This will also instill traffic disciplines among drivers, he added.
“Ngayon kapag alam na ng mga commuters and drivers that this is a public safety zone, kahit na hindi nila nakikitang sinisita sila alam nila na basta sa lugar na ito…kumbaga katulad ng sa Clark and Subic, pag pumasok yung isang Pinoy o isang commuter, sumusunod” he stressed.
But some drivers are skeptic about the project.
A man driving an SUV told Punto said no man with criminal intent would really dare take PSZs but can pursue with the execution of the crime.
“How many Comelec checkpoints did we have during the election period but see what happened?” he said.
“If your car is tinted please open your windows.”
“If you are riding a motorcycle, please remove your helmet.”
Nueva Ecija cops would now regularly ask drivers taking the busy roads do these as part of its new anti-criminality project which was launched in this city on Tuesday.
Senior Supt. Roberto Aliggayu, Nueva Ecija police director who led the launching along the busy streets of Burgos, Mabini ang Del Pilar here, said “the Public Safety Zone(PSZ) project will thwart criminality.”
“Sometimes we do not know what’s happening inside these vehicles so we should be able to at least peep into the vehicle and see who’s the driver and who’s the occupant,” Aliggayu said.
“Notably, unlike the traditional police’s anti-criminality checkpoints that are placed at random along national roads. Motorcycle riders are usually checked of documents even as car drivers are requested to open compartments, but those who will pass PSZs only have to slow down and make their faces visible throughout the zones,” he said.
The project was launched a few hours before a bus bombing in Makati City that killed at least five people and wounded several others, and more than a week after the burnt body of car-dealer Venson Evangelista was found along an irrigation canal in Barangay Buliran this city.
However, Aliggayu said the project was supposed to kick off early January but was bumped off due to security preparations during the Christmas season.
PSZs will be manned by an unstated number of policemen at least two hours a day, Aliggayu said. Motorists will be greeted with traffic advisories.
Aliggayu said police stations in other Nueva Ecija towns and cities will replicate the scheme.
This will also instill traffic disciplines among drivers, he added.
“Ngayon kapag alam na ng mga commuters and drivers that this is a public safety zone, kahit na hindi nila nakikitang sinisita sila alam nila na basta sa lugar na ito…kumbaga katulad ng sa Clark and Subic, pag pumasok yung isang Pinoy o isang commuter, sumusunod” he stressed.
But some drivers are skeptic about the project.
A man driving an SUV told Punto said no man with criminal intent would really dare take PSZs but can pursue with the execution of the crime.
“How many Comelec checkpoints did we have during the election period but see what happened?” he said.
