In an effort to maintain the prevailing peace and order situation in Manila, newly installed Manila Police District (MPD) director Chief Superintendent Roberto “Boysie” Rosales has deployed additional police cars and motorcycles on a 24-hour patrol and reconnaissance of crime-prone areas.
According to Rosales, Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim “bought my idea of putting all mobile cars and police motorcycles in the street on a 24-hour basis.”
Lim will even provide an extra eight liters of gasoline to the usual daily ration of seven liters for every mobile car, Rosales said.
The MPD has 48 patrol cars that will take turns patrolling crime-prone areas. When a patrol car assigned to a particular area responds to a crime, another takes its place, Rosales said.
Mobile patrol section head Chief Inspector Rolando Tumalad fully supported Rosales’ idea.
“People will think twice before committing crime if there are policemen and mobile cars around,” he said.
The mobile cars will be complemented by 45 police motorcycles patrolling every hour in crime prone-areas.
“I will drive these criminals away from the city. I am warning them that they have no place in Manila. The MPD is now presently monitoring their lairs,” Rosales said.
The 51-year-old MPD chief also announced that Lim has pledged to donate 60 additional mobile cars, with 20 more coming from private donors. Lim is also talking with Filipino-Chinese business groups for the acquisition of 100 additional police motorcycles. – Nestor Etolle