BIKERS FOR 'CLEAN RIDER' DRIVE. The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) motorcycle riders join the motorcade for the simultaneous launching of the 'Clean Rider' campaign in Western Visayas held at the Robinsons Place, Pavia, Iloilo on Wednesday (August 1, 2018). (Photo courtesy of ICPO)
ILOILO CITY -- The Police Regional Office in Western Visayas (PRO-6) on Wednesday launched the "Clean Rider" campaign.
In an interview, Supt. Joem Malong, spokesperson of PRO-6, said the campaign will help prevent the “increasing number of cases perpetrated by motorcycle-riding suspects.”
“This will also ensure the safety of the riders and to avoid the long process of screening of riders during conduct of checkpoints,” she added.
Malong said riders should present to the police proper documents like vehicle certificate of registration, driver’s license and any government-issued identification card so they will be issued with “clean rider” stickers to be placed in front of their motorcycle.
The sticker has security features and serialized to ascertain which police station the motorcycle was registered in, she said.
Stating the data from the Land Transportation Office 6 (LTO-6), Malong said they will be accounting more than 230,000 motorcycles in the entire region.
Initially they will distribute 5,000 stickers.
She appealed to the riders to have their motorcycles registered at their respective police stations so they will be issued stickers.
Malong said that the campaign is expected to prevent the use of motorcycles in doing illegal activities because they already have the data of these vehicles.
“If they will use it in any crime, they will be easily tracked because we have a centralized data system in the region and the national headquarters,” she said.
The launching of the campaign was held at the car park of Robinson's in Pavia town. (PNA)
