Police Director Urges LGUs To Prevent Firecracker Injuries, Road Mishaps

POLICE DIRECTOR – Central Visayas Police Director Brigadier General Valeriano De Leon urges LGUs to prevent road mishaps and firecracker injuries.

According to Inquirer’s Cebu Daily News, the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) director urged local government units (LGU) to implement measures in order to prevent such incidents especially this holiday season.

De Leon further raised concern to LGUs in a Regional Peace and Order Council meeting on December 12, 2019 in Cebu City.

The police director elaborated that road accidents is one of the common incidents during the holiday where the public is in a rush and public utility vehicles (PUVs) tend to overload passengers.

De Leon added that LGUs must regulate the jeepneys, buses, vans-for-hire, other PUVs, and load-carrying trucks in order to prevent going beyond the maximum capacity on loading and transporting people or goods around the city.

“I told them to form a special task group that would focus on minimizing the injuries brought by road accidents or playing firecrackers. Our goal is to have zero casualties, zero injuries,”

Based on the report, the director also urdes LGUs to strictly enact President Rodrigo Duterte’s executive order (EO) against firecrackers which he signed on June 2017.

The executive order requires LGUs to make a safe area for playing firecrackers, since they are banned from the streets and community areas bordered by close buildings.

LGUs are also required to designate clear public spaces for firecrackers to prevent firecracker-related injuries.

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