MMDA to traffic cops: Return phones, equipment
The MMDA yesterday threatened some 1,000 police personnel
belonging to the defunct Traffic Enforcement Group with administrative and
criminal charges for failure to return equipment loaned by the agency.
Emmanuel De Castro, MMDA legal counsel, made the warning
after some members of the police traffic unit continue to discharge their duties
despite the dissolution of their command.
"They could not continue to perform traffic duties since the
memorandum of agreement has been suspended last month," De Castro said.
He advised the TEG personnel to surrender the traffic
violation booklets, two-way radios, mobile phones and other traffic
paraphernalia issued by the MMDA within seven days upon receipt of the demand
letter.
De Castro advised motorists apprehended by TEG personnel to
report the matter to the agency adding that their continued performance of
traffic duties is now illegal and can be contested by the motorists.
Traffic management and enforcement in the 17 cities and towns
comprising of the NCR is now with the MMDA’s 2, 000 traffic enforcers and
personnel from local government units.–Ashzel Hachero
Bus worker slain
Rodolfo de Ocampo, 50, a bus inspector, was shot dead
yesterday when he tried to intervene in a row over parking at a bus terminal in
Muntinlupa City.
A security guard, Victor Cainguitan, was arguing with Joel
Cammayon, 31, a conductor of a Pandacan Transport Bus, over traffic obstruction
in the Saint Rose bus terminal beside the Metropolis Mall in Alabang.
Cammayon and a group of still unidentified men ganged up on
the guard prompting him to draw his service firearm and fire at the group. He
hit De Ocampo instead, and slightly wounded Cammayo who was brought to the
Alabang Medical Clinic. – Aszhel Hachero
Ex cop nabbed in buy-bust
Former PO3 Arnel Mesa, 40, of barangay Mambog, Binangonan,
Rizal was arrested Thursday for allegedly selling suspected shabu worth P300
during a buy-bust operation at his house.
Supt. Rodino Elfa, Rizal investigation chief, said that Mesa
who is now detained at the Rizal provincial jail has been under surveillance by
his former colleagues. Elfa said that they were able to conduct the buy bust
after deploying rookie policeman as poseur buyer.–Christian Oineza
