BACOOR CITY, Cavite – The Cavite Provincial Police Office and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) set up checkpoints and started enforcing the election gun ban on Saturday morning, as the filing of certificates of candidadacy for the village and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK-youth council) polls began.
Cavite provincial police director Senior Supt. William Segun; Bacoor City chief of police Supt. Francisco Lucena III; and Cavite Provincial Comelec Officer lawyer Sheryl G. Moresca-Rubie led the setting up of checkpoints in Barangay Mabolo in this city.
Segun said similar checkpoints were set up in Cavite’s 23 cities and municipalities.
The provincial police director and Comelec Officer have strongly recommended that the checkpoints should have big printed signages written in bold letters “PNP-COMELEC Checkpoints” that are visible enough for the public and motorists so they could be guided accordingly.
Police officers who are manning or conducting the checkpoints should also be in proper police uniforms.
According to Segun, at least eight police enforcers should man each checkpoint placed in strategic entrance and exit areas in Cavite province.
The checkpoint in Barangay Mabolo, for example, had already recorded several violations from motorcycle riders and private utility vehicles on Saturday, which included no registration of motorcycle, no driver’s license. A few others were apprehended for not wearing helmets.
However, no violation of the election gun ban was recorded so far.
PNP and Comelec checkpoints are also backed up by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) – as deputized security forces – to protect the people and to ensure peace and order in all places in Cavite. (Rogelio Limpin/PNA)
