Police toughens city ordinance implementation

DESPITE the recent uproar of the public on the Philippine National Police’s implementation of ‘Oplan RODY’, the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) assured those arrested are violators of city ordinances.

This following some confusion from the public on the arrests being done by the PNP on alleged ‘tambay’ or loiterers particularly in the evening.

“What we are applying in the city is the arrest of persons having pending warrants of arrests and those violating our local ordinances and not the so called tambays,” BCPO city director Senior Superintendent Ramil Saculles explained.

The BCPO also compares their operation on ‘Oplan Bakal-Sita’ as one of their mea-

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sures which seeks to confiscate deadly weapons concealed by persons particularly in entertainment establishments and the filing of a case against them.

“Persons seen loitering in our streets having no criminal records or are not doing any criminal acts are being asked to go home while persons having pending warrants are being arrested based on our mandate as enforcers of the law,” Saculles added.

Department of the Interior and Local Government Assistant Secretary Jonathan Malaya who was present during the Baguio leg of the Regional Consultation on Federalism explained the PNP through its Director General Oscar Albayalde have convened a group to look into the guidelines on ‘Oplan Rody’.

“Oplan Rody is not that complicated because it deals with the implementation of existing ordinances where most of the places in the country have their own ordinances,” Malaya stated.

Malaya added those caught drinking in public and those not wearing upper shirts and violating curfew which clearly violates ordinances are within the guidelines of ‘Oplan Rody’.