CAVITE POGO WORKERS GET POLICE CLEARANCE
CARMONA, Cavite: Sky Dragon Global Technologies Corp., a Cavite-based business process outsourcing service provider authorized by Pagcor to operate as a Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO), has agreed to comply with the requirement that its workers should get clearance from the Philippine National Police (PNP) .
Ryan Sy, Sky Dragon general manager, said all of their employees have been told to secure the clearance through the Cavite Provincial Police Office.
Skydragon has been in operation for two months and employs about 400 workers, 95 percent of whom are Filipinos.
PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. said this requirement was an offshoot of the meeting they initiated with POGOs amid the rising cases of criminal activities in the country, particularly kidnapping. Azurin also revealed that they are now working with the POGOs to likewise require their workers to present proof that they are not wanted for criminal offenses in their respective countries.
Cases of kidnapping in the country have gone up since 2017, most of them involving POGO workers.
This year alone, 27 kidnapping cases involving POGO workers were recorded by the PNP.
Azurin earlier called for stricter rules to be observed by POGOs for their workers, as he revealed that there was no clear-cut policy since 2017 to check on the background and the status of foreign POGO workers in the Philippines.
Azurin also ordered a crackdown on undocumented and overstaying POGO workers in the country and was the first to propose that POGO workers must secure police clearance first before working in the country.