Post by EPD SONAR 03 on Jun 25, 2008 22:21:35 GMT 8
PHILIPPINE National Police chief Director General Avelino I. Razon, Jr. said the “no plate, no travel” policy will be fully implemented nationwide even as he informed the public of a new Land Transportation Office order on the placement and installation of commemorative plates.
Razon said that LTO chief Alberto H. Suansing signed a new order declaring that commemorative plates “shall not be superimposed over the regular plates.”
“With this order, the original LTO-issued car plates must remain visible in the front and rear of the vehicle at all times,” Razon said.
He explained that commemorative plates shall be installed in front of a motor vehicle either at the right side or left side of the regular plate as the regular plate shall be maintained in the space provided for the purpose.
Razon said placing commemorative plates at the rear of vehicles will be strictly prohibited.
On the other hand, commemorative stickers should be pasted on the upper right hand corner on the front windshield while the regular LTO windshield validating sticker must be pasted at the left upper side of the front windshield.
“I am warning all vehicle owners to follow this new LTO order. The original LTO-issued car plates must remain visible in the front and rear of the car or SUV at all times. Also included in the prohibition is the use of any kind of material to cover the car license plates,” Razon said.
He had already ordered his men to stop drivers of vehicles sporting commemorative and vanity plates such as “PPSA,” “PNPA,” “PGH,” “KALINGA,” “PROSECUTOR,” “COUNCILOR,” and “UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES,” among others.
PNP spokesman Chief Supt. Nicanor A. Bartolome said dozens of policemen and civilians have already been accosted inside the PNP national headquarters for driving vehicles with expired commemorative plates, with delinquent LTO registration, or without license plates.
Driving a vehicle without license plates carries an LTO fine of P110 and another P150 fine from the Metro Manila Development Authority. The vehicle is also impounded until the owner presents the original LTO certificate of registration and official receipt.
Bartolome said the PNP is cracking down on drivers of vehicles with no plates, tinted, fake, stolen and expired plates due to rising reports of robberies and killings perpetrated by suspects using cars without plates or with fake or stolen plates, like the heist at the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. in Cabuyao, Laguna that left eight bank employees, a security guard and a depositor dead.
Since January, TMG agents across the country have apprehended 11,947 motor vehicles with no plates, 1,158 with tinted colored plastic plate covers, 38 with fake license plates and 146 with unauthorized or expired commemorative plates
Bartolome said policemen in the field have also been ordered to accost motorcycle riders without helmets.
He said PNP and Armed Forces personnel are not exempted from the campaign.
(The PNP leadership is asking victims of crime and rogue officers to send their complaints through the following: Isumbong Mo Kay Tsip through 0917-8475757, the Anti-Kotong Text 0927-5151515; PNP TXT 2920, DILG Patrol 117 or e-mail at tsip1@pnp.gov.ph or tsip@pnp.gov.ph)
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