PNP set to deploy bike patrols
FOR HIGHER POLICE VISIBILITY
TO intensify police visibility particularly in remote areas not easily accessible to patrol cars, Pangasinan police started training foot patrolmen for bike patrol.
Acting-Provincial Police Director Ronald Oliver Lee said bike patrols are very effective in crime prevention in remote areas or in places where an immediate response for traffic enforcement in bottleneck situations or in populated tourist spots.
According to SPO4 Hugh Reginald Coplat, bike patrol trainor from the Special Training Unit 1 (STU1), the personnel undergoing bike patrol training learn tactics in traversing traffic in congested areas that the bikers, from practicing slalom, power break, power slide and traversing ramps or pavements to avoid accidents.
Presently, the batch of 50 traffic officers that started training last week will complete the program on December 1.
Coplat said the present training in Pangasinan is the seventh for STU1 this year in the provinces of La Union, Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte and Pangasinan. (Nora Dominguez)
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