Tadina: Law enforcement takes over quarantine checkpoints
ALL 21 existing quarantine control points (QCPs) are already operating as law enforcement checkpoints no longer COVID-19 related but still implement travel restrictions 24/7 and to check and negate the movement of lawless elements as part of its preparations for the May 2022 elections.
P/Colonel Richmond Tadina, acting police provincial director, speaking before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) on November 22, said he decided on the shift on the checkpoints’ purpose since the number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan continues on a downward trend and Pangasinan and Dagupan City are already under Alert Level 1.
Tadina said the checkpoints will be manned by fewer personnel and more will be redeployed to places of convergence, i.e., areas where LGUs have put up Christmas lights, to maintain order and enforce health and distance protocols.
Meanwhile, Tadina said checkpoints are no longer requiring travelers to present S-PASS permit and negative RT-PCR test result and instead are only required to present their vaccination cards and IDs except when tourists are coming from areas under higher alert level classification.
When the campaign period starts on January 9 next year, he said the checkpoints will be relocated to strategic areas to ensure maximum security of the province.
He said he already identified 41 personnel facing reassignment because they have relatives vying for elective positions while chiefs of police who stayed in their present areas of assignment for more than one year will also be reassigned.
On the matter of insurgency situation, Tadinan since the dismantling of the Tarlac-Zambales (Tar-Zam) Larangang Gerilya Front, he said there have been non sightings or activities of remnants of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army in Pangasinan.
On the drug war front, Tadina expressed confidence that the recent successful operations against illegal drugs, from raids of drug dens to buy-bust operations, have greatly reduced supply of drugs in the province.
He said he is hopeful that the remaining uncleared barangays in the province will soon be cleared and validated by the PDEA as drug-free. (Leonardo Micua)
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