Police to maintain checkpoints, control points
POLICE checkpoints and control points will still continue even if Pangasinan has already transitioned to Modified General Community Quarantine.
P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, told the Virtual KBP Forum on Thursday, it will continue because the checkpoints and border control points are strong deterrents not only against violators of the health protocols but also against criminals.
He said when Pangasinan was still under the Enhanced Community Quarantine, there was a drastic reduction on focused crimes that included vehicular accidents in the province from 60 to 70 percent.
But since the reclassification of the province to Modified General Community Quarantine, more crimes were reported with businesses reopened, workers started to return to their work and many vehicles were back on the streets.
He said the situation has necessitated the continued operation of police checkpoints and control points which he said has resulted in 15 policemen being infected and presently confined in various isolation facilities.
The cases of the 15 policemen consequently led to 14-day lockdown of the provincial headquarters since July 24 but a processing center outside the PPPO building was put up to accommodate people seeking help and services from their provincial PNP.
Maranan said amid the pandemic, the PNP provincial office continues to be relentless in its campaign against illegal drugs since Pangasinan was placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine.
PNP operatives seized six kilos of shabu in an operation in Binmaley that led to the arrest of two notorious drug peddlers.
The campaign against illegal drugs, he said, remains as the flagship program of the Pangasinan PNP.
Meanwhile, Maranan said the police are still not arresting motorcycle riders with backriders in Pangasinan without the required barriers provided that they can show marriage certificates to prove their union, including common-law couple if they can show proof that they reside in the same house.
The requirement of standard barriers will be enforced in weeks ahead, Maranan said. (Leonardo Micua)
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