LTO Oroquieta Hit the Streets Lady Enforcers: We will do what men had to do!

LTO-Oroquieta OIC Carmencita Pangilinan with OIC P/Supt Paciano Deloso OCPS interviewed by this writer.

By PJTremedal, BNDMisOC-CIB/OCM

Oroquieta City – With a motherly look like her own daughter compassionately conquers the men on the streets in regards with the government campaign against violators of R.A. 4136. The newly created yellow uniformed Lady Enforcers of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) now ruled the streets.

Here in the City of Good Life, Mrs. Carmencita Pangilinan, OIC Traffic Supervisor of LTO-Oroquieta proudly stop and issues Temporary Operators Permit (TOP) to erring drivers/owners of vehicles, motorized tricycles, and motorcycles who always depend in their usual “Nakalimot” (I forgot) with the Traffic Code of the Philippines or otherwise Known as R.A. 4136.

“With the launching of the Lady Enforcers of our office, we have to implement R.A. 4136, in a manner that, like any other law enforcers women can do our best. “ OIC-LTO Traffic Supervisor Pangilinan said.

“We can give this drivers our motherly advise but we can implement the law as men can do too!, as law enforcers, women always fights for the good, like in a family” she adds.

Last September 20, 2010, DOTC-LTO launched the Lady Enforcers nationwide to help and support the department’s campaign on the implementation of R.A. 4136 and other rules and regulation of the Traffic Code of the country.

LTO chief Assistant Secretary Virginia Torres gave the green light to deployed lady traffic enforcers nationwide who will work with their male counterparts from the Traffic Enforcement Division of regional LTOs in ensuring order of traffic flow and safety of motorists.

Torres assured the public that all the lady traffic officers underwent extensive training in determining various traffic violations and in identifying colorum (illegal) vehicles or those public transport units straying out of their designated routes.

“We are hopeful that the presence of our pretty lady enforcers on the street would help prevent usual altercations that often lead to physical clash between hot-headed drivers and male traffic enforcers," said Torres,

Although, the LTO lady traffic enforcers will take an active role in directing traffic and apprehending traffic violators like their male counterparts, they will don a different set of uniform for easy identification on the road.

"We understand women's sensitivity so we designed a uniform that will protect them from the polluted environment and at the same time not limit their physical activities," she said.

With the optimism that the deployment of these lady enforcers should serve as a clear signal to the public of our sincere desire of not only solving perennial traffic problems but also one of our first steps to initiate reforms within the agency.

“We are optimistic that the deployment of these lady enforcers should serve as a clear signal to the public of our sincere desire of not only solving perennial traffic problems but also one of our first steps to initiate reforms within the agency” Assistant Secretary Torres said.

With the directives from the national office, Mrs. Pangilinan said that, “Even my office has only three female employees, two from LTO-Oroquieta while one is a deputized lady enforcers we can do the job.”

This week, with the help of other law enforcers of Oroquieta like the City PNP under P/Supt Paciano Deloso, the LTO Lady Enforcers caught illegally driven vehicles, some drivers has no license at all, they never wear prescribed safety helmets, and other has no franchise, no registration of their vehicles, and other has no safety gadgets in their vehicles.

“Our office here in Oroquieta City will be in the streets every Wednesday of each week to monitor, campaign and implement the rules and regulations of R.A. 4136.” LTO-OIC Pangilinan ended.