What happens when the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) join forces to do a nationwide operation to strictly enforce traffic laws on all 17 regions in the Philippines?
You catch around 969 traffic violators--all in a space of a day.
This "joint operation", which complied with President Rodrigo Duterte's directions, lasted only for a day. According to LTO Assistant Secretary Edgar C. Galvante, it's part of the LTO's program to help lessen or avoid road crash accidents in the Philippines.
“The LTO has been conducting Operations against road traffic violators, in coordination with various concerned agencies. This continuing activity aims to prevent road crashes nationwide,” LTO Assistant Secretary said.
Meanwhile, LTO has released data regarding these infringements and detailed the offenses. They tallied the most "violated" traffic laws with in all the 969 arrests, and came up with the following:
Dubbed as a "One-Time, Big-Time" event, this ambitious program required coordination not just with the Land Transportation Office's Law Enforcement Service and the Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG), but also the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA), the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), and other local government units.
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