Navotas cops get new cars, motorbikes

The Navotas City police are set to receive tomorrow nine brand-new, fully equipped patrol cars and 10 motorcycles to help improve the city’s peace and order and public safety.

“The Navotas City police deserve nothing less, as security of everyone in Navotas is the number one value for all citizens, rich and poor,” Mayor Toby Tiangco said. “We need to see the decrease, if not elimination, of street crimes because these are things that concern everybody in Navotas, even ordinary citizens.”

He will turn over seven Toyota Avanzas, 2 Hilux pick-up trucks and 10 motorcycles with sidecars to Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Avelino Razon Jr. in a ceremony at 8 a.m. tomorrow at the Navotas City Hall grounds.

Tiangco also said the city government is working for the transfer of its police station to the old municipal hall building to make it more accessible to residents.

Senior Superintendent Eric Serafin Reyes, the city police chief, expressed his gratitude to Tiangco, saying the new vehicles “will surely provide mobility to the police force, enabling us to respond to any form of emergency.”

Tiangco said the City Traffic and Parking Management Office will soon receive six motorcycles; Task Force Disiplina, three motorcycles with sidecars; and the City Environment and Sanitation Office, seven garbage trucks. – Pete Laude