Personnel of two enforcement arms of the Dagupan City government have received death threats from still unidentified persons.

Threatened are members of the city’s Anti-Hawking Task Force and the Public Order and Safety Office.

Butch Gutierrez, head of the anti-hawking task force, said he received the threat on his life through a text message sent through his mobile phone by an unknown sender after completing their operations inside the MC Adore Hotel premises last Tuesday where several goods were confiscated.

Gutierrez said most of the apprehended vendors own stalls fronting the Mc Adore but peddled their wares along the driveway that resulted in obstruction of the traffic.

He said a commotion ensued when allegedly a group of Muslim vendors, armed with wooden clubs, struck his men who were undertaking the clearing operations wounding two in the process. The case is now being investigated by the Dagupan police.

Gutierrez received the text message threatening him with bodily harm if any of the vendors were jailed.

After the melee, the vendors trooped to the city hall to complain what they claimed to be unjust confiscation of their goods.

He suspected that those behind the threat were the ambulant vendors who were affected by his office’s daily operations.

At the same time, POSO Chief Robert Erfe Mejia said he received information that two of his traffic enforcers have been targeted for assassination before the year ends. He, however, refused to name the two traffic enforcers.

Mejia said a transport organization here affected by POSO’s strict enforcement of traffic rules could be behind the threat but again refused to identify the group. – AQL

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