The Daily Manila Shimbun

 

PNP-HPG share traffic management duties with MMDA starting Monday

September 8, 2019



Starting Monday, the Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) will share traffic management duties with the Metro Manila Development Authority ( MMDA) along Edsa.

The PNP-HPG will deploy 200 cops, of which 25 are women. Edsa from Timog to Ortigas will be under the PNP-HPG while the MMDA will handle traffic from Timog to Balintawak and Ortigas to Pasay.

The PNP-HPG will start operations from 5 am to 11 pm in two shifts but they can extend until 1 am if traffic is heavy.    

Police Lt. Col. Emmanuel Tabuena, PNP-HPG traffic enforcement unit head.  said Sunday they will implement traffic rules. DMS