Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas has ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) to procure mobile units with closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras to ensure peace and order during annual big events in the country.
In a weekly command conference in Camp Crame, Roxas said that these mobile closed circuit televisions (CCTVs) will transmit images to the mobile command posts (e.g. buses) which will then send these images to either the district police offices or the National Headquarters of the PNP.
He also said that this will enable the PNP to immediately address problems commonly encountered during the crowd-drawer events in the country such as the President?s State of the National Address (SONA), which under the 1987 Constitution is delivered every fourth Monday of July; the EDSA People Power Revolution every 25th of February; and the Feast of the Black Nazarene every ninth of January.
During the meeting, Roxas reminded PNP officials that criminality should be solved using a ?programmatic, deliberate, and sustainable? approach, which is not ?bara-bara, kanya-kanya and ningas-kugon.?
Roxas also ordered the installation of additional CCTVs in all 38 police stations in Metro Manila after tasking PNP officials to meet with officials from the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to maximize the use of their 210 CCTVs installed in different areas in the metropolis.
According to him, the coordinated efforts between the MMDA and the PNP can make for better and more effective customized police operations in high crime areas currently under Pasadya.
Another project ? the Metro Hawkeye ? for the installation of CCTVs in crime-prone areas in the metropolis, is now in its post-qualification stage.
