PNP to set up outposts in gasoline stations
PRO-7 Director Noli Taliño gives the thumbs-up sign after the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Lakbay Ligtas program at the Petron gas station on Escario Street, Barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City with (from left) Cebu City Police Office Director Joel Doria, Petron AVP for Corporate Affairs Charmaine Canillas and Mandaue City Police Office Director Roberto Alanas. (CDN PHOTO/LITO TECSON)
Wanting to keep local communities safer, the Philippine National Police (PNP) will establish police outposts in selected oil stations in the Visayas.
Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), led the launching ceremony of the Lakbay Ligtas program at the Petron station along Escario Street in Cebu City yesterday.
“The police and community must work together. We policemen can only achieve something if we have the trust and confidence of the public,” he said.
Forty-two police outposts in selected Petron stations in the Visayas are expected to be established in the coming days.
Under the agreement, PNP personnel will regularly man and utilize dedicated Lakbay Ligtas outposts to attend to complaints and for posting and distribution of crime prevention materials.
The policemen will also train Petron station personnel on what to do and what numbers to call in case police assistance is needed.
“Petron has the widest network of service stations in the country and we are proud to be tapped as one of the PNP’s partners to ensure the welfare of our communities,” said Petron Corporation’s vice president for national sales Archie Gupalor.
About 2,010 police outposts were also deployed in Petron stations in Luzon, and 48 others in Mindanao.
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