LINGAYEN, Pangasinan -- The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) is encouraging about 55,000 registered motorcycle owners in the province to secure a ‘Clean Rider’ sticker on their motorcycles and licenses intended to easily identify the illegal motorcycles.
The PPPO will launch ‘Oplan Clean Rider’ in Region 1 (Ilocos) on Saturday.
“Ang kagandahan kapag mayroong stickers kapag dumaan sa checkpoint ay agad malalaman ang motorcycles na hindi kailangan sitahin (The good thing if a motorcycle has a sticker is when it passed to a checkpoint, the police officers can easily determine that the rider does not need further inspection),” Chief Inspector Norman Florentino said in a radio interview on Friday,
Florentino admitted that in most crimes, motorcycles are used by criminals.
“After the launching, pwede na sila magfile ng application sa kani-kanilang station to avail yong sticker for free (they can file their applications in their respective stations to avail of the sticker for free),” he said.
Oplan Clean Rider was first introduced by the Philippine National Police in August this year, which aims to decrease or deter crimes related to riding-in-tandem criminals.
Regional police stations were given time to disseminate the information prior to the launching, he added.
Chief Inspector Dennis Ballitoc, deputy chief of Malasiqui Police Station Ballitoc, earlier explained how the ‘Oplan Clean Rider’ sticker will be issued.
“We will create a database and upon verification, if the rider is complete with his or her requirements and he or she is without criminal records, then we will issue a sticker that will be placed in the motorcycle and at the back of his or her driver’s license to indicate that he or she is a ‘Clean Rider’,” he said.
“If the two did not match, we will call the registered owner of the motorcycle and confirm if he or she lent his or her motorcycle to the person driving it. Through this, we could also prevent or intercept carjacking incidents,” he added. (PNA)
