LTO CONDUCTS E- PATROL OPERATIONS/ OUTREACH PROGRAM
THE Land Transportation Office (LTO) will conduct off-site operations in various key areas, aimed to reach out to as many clients as possible dubbed as E-Patrol Operations/Outreach Program. LTO Assistant Secretary Edgar Galvante encourages the public and private companies to avail of this opportunity and to not wait for the deadline to avoid penalties. The program will be conducted in key government facilities as well as in private companies and associations with fleet of motor vehicles within Metro Manila where the bulk of LTO clients come from. Lawyer Clarence Guinto, LTO-National Capital Region director, said an onsite shop will be set up at the PNP Training Service in Camp Crame, Quezon City on February 9–10 and at the Supreme Court of the Philippines in Manila February 22 – 23, 2018. Services will be issuance of Student Permits for 17 years old and above; renewal of driver’s license; printing of driver’s license with a 5- year validity period for original Official Receipt issued by LTO-NCR offices and renewal of Registration of Motor Vehicles with Certificate of Emission Compliance.
DILG CHIEF ORDERS FILING OF CHARGES VS 18 SLEEPING, DRINKING POLICEMEN
THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has ordered the National Police Commission (Napolcom) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to file administrative charges against the 18 policemen caught sleeping and drinking while on the duty. DILG Chief Eduardo Año said the 18 erring policemen from Pasay and Muntinlupa will face penalties for dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming and other appropriate charges. On February 7, National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Chief Oscar Albayalde caught the policemen in a surprise inspection and were immediately stripped of their weapons and badges. They were reassigned to the Regional Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City.
ILIGAN MAYOR WANTS IDPS’ RETURN TO MARAWI
ILIGAN CITY: Mayor Celso Regencia said he expects all internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the four evacuation centers here out by February 15 after giving notice to the provincial officials of Lanao del Sur and Marawi City. Regencia said he never suggested that they go back to the Ground Zero area but “the Provincial Capitol in Marawi is a large area that could accommodate IDPs while they wait for the completion of the temporary shelters,” he added. Regencia first set the deadline by January 31, the time when the Department of Health would terminate its services for the IDPs but Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra and Lanao del Sur Vice Gove. Mamintal Adiong Jr have asked for extension. The village chiefs of the four barangay (villages) where IDPs are still housed have also asked Regencia to facilitate the pullout of IDPs so that the multipurpose facilities can be cleaned and used for their official functions. Meanwhile, the Department of Social Welfare and Development–Region 10, Task Force Bangon Marawi and Lanao del Sur LGU have decided to put up tents in identified evacuation sites in Marawi to absorb the IDPs leaving Iligan,” said Evelyn Madrio, DSWD operations center head. She said IDP families whose children are not studying in Iligan will be given priority in the Marawi tent shelters while DSWD– Region 12 will oversee the continuing relief intervention in Marawi and its Region 10 center in Iligan will provide food and non- food supplies.