MMDA bent on arming its traffic enforcers By Pat C. Santos 02/20/2012

MMDA bent on arming its traffic enforcers

By Pat C. Santos 02/20/2012

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is seriously mulling arming its traffic enforcers following a new attack on a traffic enforcer by a group of drag racers before dawn last Friday along Macapagal Boulevard in Paraaque City.

This after MMDA assistant manager for planning Emerson Carlos admitted there is a need to protect enforcers but said that such a move must be carefully studied and should not be done in haste.

Pag-aaralan namin yang posibilidad na bigyan ng konting armas ang ating mga tao para makapagtanggol naman sila sa sarili lalo na yung mga nakatalaga sa ganitong klaseng operasyon (We still need to study the possibility arming our enforcers to defend themselves, especially in this kind of operation), Carlos said, referring to the enforcers deployed to crack down on the illegal scooter race along Macapagal Boulevard where the attack took place..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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