ILOILO City – There are over 230,000 registered motorcycles in Western Visayas, data from the Land Transportation Office 6 (LTO-6) showed.
All of these are the targets of the Police Regional Office 6’s (PRO-6) “Campaign Plan: Clean Rider” that was launched in Pavia, Iloilo yesterday.
Through especially designed stickers, PRO-6 hopes to curb if not totally eliminate crimes perpetrated by motorcycle-riding gunmen. The “Clean Rider” drive entails the registration of motorcycles at police stations so they could be issued with stickers.
According to Superintendent Joem Malong, PRO-6 spokesperson, they would initially release 5,000 stickers.
To register at police stations, a motorist must fill up a registration form with a 2×2 picture and submit for recording the make, engine number, chassis number, plate number, year model, and the complete owner’s name, occupation, certificate of registration, official receipt, and driver’s license.
“If the motorcycle is used in the commission of a crime, it could be easily tracked because we have a centralized data system in the region and the national headquarters,” said Malong.
A matching sticker would be attached to the driver’s license of the owner for easy identification.
No fee would be collected.
Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao, regional police director, clarified that having a “Clean Rider” sticker does not preclude authorities from flagging motorists at checkpoints because of the possibility the rider may not be the real owner of the motorcycle or it has been hijacked.
“The police will still ask for the OR/CR and driver’s license,” said Bulalacao.
The process, however, won’t be as tedious.
“Ang sticker parang passes na ‘yan. Hindi kana pag-interrogate,” said Bulalacao./PN
