CAMP ALEJO SANTOS, Bulacan — Despite the continuous relief operations are being conducted after the onslaught of Typhoon Carina, Police Regional Office 3 is now keeping on its toes in providing the utmost assistance among students in the opening of classes on Monday.
PRO3 Director Brig. Gen. Jose S. Hidalgo Jr. in his statement revealed that guidelines were already established in accordance with “Ligtas Balik- Eskwela 2024”, a directive emanated from the National Headquarters that is being conducted annually.
He bared that nearly 1,000 PNP personnel are deployed in the different provinces to provide public safety and police visibility in schools, colleges, universities and its nearby areas, which are most likely to be the chosen target place of criminal elements.
“Police Assistance Desks, manned by a team with a police commissioned officer as its leader, are established at schools and other learning institutions to pre-empt problems and respond for any eventuality,” Hidalgo said.
He also directed all field officers to personally visit the different schools and coordinate with school officials in order to deter lawless elements from doing illegal activities such as hold-up, pick-pocketing, snatching, drug pushing and even kidnapping of hapless students.
Additionally, Hidalgo said that police are working hand in hand with the traffic auxiliaries in traffic control and direction wherein volume of students are travelling to and from the various schools in the different cities/provinces seeing that road traffic is expected to elevate.
“Once again, I am calling for the cooperation of the public to prevent any crime in the community especially in our learning institutions by providing the authorities relevant and timely information through PRO3 hotline 0998-5985330/ 0917- 5562597 and social media (facebook account: www.facebook.com/PRO3PIOCampOlivas),” PRO3 director noted.(unliNews Online)
